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kopeezie t1_iwtw8el wrote

Reply to comment by ctoph in The Only Way the U.S. Can Win the Tech War with China by Vailhem

Also to add to technology is quality and yield. Anyone can splash some photo resist on a wafer. But to do it over and over again to the same uniform 10nm thickness across the wafer for 10,000 wafers per month is mind boggling. We joked at Amat that the only thing being more massed produced than switches on this planet was biological cells.

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ctoph t1_iwtwqas wrote

The optics and EUV are truly crazy. I saw a video where they were saying the flatness of mirrors they use in the lithography machines are something like if the surface of the earth only varied like a millimeters in its topology (number might be wrong but it was crazy flat)

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