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Re:Sam Altman seeking trillions for AI chip fabrication from... by itishappy on Friday February 09, 2024 @06:06PM (#39321607)
$7T is the total volume of semiconductor sales over the past 20 years.

https://www.wsts.org/

$7T would buy more than 100 modern fabs. (TSMC has 4.)

https://www.bcg.com/publications/2023/navigating-the-semicon...

$7T would buy 20 thousand high-NA EUV machines from ASML.

https://www.tomshardware.com/pc-components/cpus/asml-ships-g...

$7T would fund both the Apollo and Artemis programs 20 times over. (In today's dollars.)

https://www.space.com/nasa-artemis-moon-program-93-billion-2...

$7T is the total volume of trade entering and exiting the US per year.

https://ustr.gov/countries-regions

$7T is the GDP of South America and Africa combined.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Economy_of_South_America

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Economy_of_Africa

Re:Sam Altman seeking trillions for AI chip fabrication from... by digdugdirk on Friday February 09, 2024 @08:39PM (#39322665)
Thank you for that. What a delightful dash of context.