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Re:US Gov announces $8.5B preliminary CHIPS investment agree... by mrd3v0 on Wednesday March 20, 2024 @12:25PM (#39768774)
Any industry wouldn't be "really a startup kinda business" if only a few players are pumped more than everyone else combined by orders of magnitude. Having to scale to everyone's demand is a lot more costly than if the market was fragmented.
Re:US Gov announces $8.5B preliminary CHIPS investment agree... by Aloisius on Wednesday March 20, 2024 @07:21PM (#39773213)
It's not just scale. Even Intel's development fabs cost billions to build.

The equipment and facilities required for cutting edge fabs are very expensive.