Re:ASML looking to finally get ahead of Moore’s Law
by flakeoil on Friday November 18, 2022 @05:23AM
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That's maybe exactly why they should spend some money on more production facilities.
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Re:ASML looking to finally get ahead of Moore’s Law
by cinntaile on Friday November 18, 2022 @07:49AM
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We were in a massive boom before, it is probably in their best interest to not try and increase their production facilities at a too fast pace. Building out facilities that are, after the boom, underutilized is not wise is a capital heavy industry such as this one.
Re:ASML looking to finally get ahead of Moore’s Law
by flakeoil on Friday November 18, 2022 @10:06AM
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Sure, but the parent I commented on said "Building their machines takes a long time" as a reason for not building it out. Which I think is a bad reason.
I agree with you that the need maybe will not be there exactly when they have built out.
Also note that TSMC, Intel and a whole bunch of others are currently starting to build, or plan to build, new fabs (partly due to the new Chip Act). And they will need stuff from ASML.