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Re:What’s harder to find than microchips? The equipment that... by ajsnigrutin on Saturday November 06, 2021 @06:38PM (#29134489)
Chip making is not a relatively-well documented software project with a bunch of people with knowledge available to get in the labour market

Chip making is a bunch of very very very specialized equipment, a lot of real black magic, and a few people who actually know what they're doing.

This makes it worth more to find existing, experienced manufacturers and try to get them to make more, than to reinvent a very complex wheel, with so much research involved, that the chip crises may be over, before the first devices reach production

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Re:What’s harder to find than microchips? The equipment that... by Spooky23 on Saturday November 06, 2021 @07:53PM (#29134989)
I worked in a facility that to great fanfare built an insane building to house a $200M+ tool.

Unfortunately, it didn’t work out, and 3 years later, the tool was being hacked apart and hauled off by a caravan of scrapyard haulers.

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Re:What’s harder to find than microchips? The equipment that... by intricatedetail on Saturday November 06, 2021 @08:04PM (#29135069)
To be honest that sounds like a tax fiddle...
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