eleijeep

“We’ve tried nothing and we’re all out of ideas!”

Thinking like this is what ensures that the most powerful beings in the universe will never let us evolve past monkeys on skateboards.

My 1080Ti works out of the box with the bazzite-nvidia image

Who are the stupid fucks ruining the country? The startups?

Russia benefiting from the war in Iran? Interesting. 🤔

There’s a lot more to semiconductor manufacturing than just the lithography, and there’s a whole supply chain required to support it. To replicate the kind of process nodes that TSMC is manufacturing you would need a lot of institutional expertise in:

• crystal growth (or sourcing)
• wafer manufacture (or sourcing)
• silicon doping
• process design
• mask design
• mask manufacture
• photoresist manufacture (or sourcing)
• photoresist application
• etching
• sputtering
• testing and validation
• wire bonding
• packaging

That’s just off the top of my head as someone who is a spectator of the industry but not involved. There’s probably a lot more you’d need to perfect in order to produce cutting edge silicon.

If this were done in the EU it would likely involve multiple companies specialising in one area each, as we don’t have an Intel or AMD with the budget to pour into developing an in-house foundry. I can’t imagine how much investment it would take though. China has been working on this for decades and is still at least a decade behind in their own silicon process.