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Re:TSMC “Apple-first” 3nm policy leads to AMD and Qualcomm m... by naasking on Thursday November 25, 2021 @12:52PM (#29343368)
> This is the failure of having a choke point in semiconductor manufacturing and centralisation of all manufacturing infrastructure.

Arguably, bleeding edge silicon fabs are natural monopolies. Pushing transistor sizes down to atomic scales entails non-linear increases in costs to get decent yields. That's why there are very few fabs at the bleeding edge any more.

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