ASML to Ship First High-NA EUV Tool This Year: $300M per Scanner

Re:ASML to Ship First High-NA EUV Tool This Year: $300M per ... by rbanffy on Thursday September 07, 2023 @06:23PM (#37426439)

We can’t make F1s because the supply chains that made the materials and the parts no longer exist. We could try to approximate one with new materials and techniques, but it would not be an F1 - it’d be a design derived from it.

That’s the thing with the chefs - you can’t make a mammoth dish because there are no more mammoth to cook.

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Re:ASML to Ship First High-NA EUV Tool This Year: $300M per ... by iancmceachern on Thursday September 07, 2023 @08:25PM (#37427626)

Yes they do, the supply chains still exist, we still use many of those alloys, etc. We still make rocket engines. In the F1's case we were just going too fast and didn't write things down.

In the nuclear weapons case we deliberately dismantled it.

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Re:ASML to Ship First High-NA EUV Tool This Year: $300M per ... by rbanffy on Friday September 08, 2023 @05:16AM (#37431375)

> In the nuclear weapons case we deliberately dismantled it.

I'd say that is actually a good thing. Nukes are meant not to be used. They are a deterrent, so it's important they exist, that they are functional, and that you are willing to use them to hit hard against an aggressor. MAD kept us alive until now.

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