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Firm predicts it will cost $28 billion to build a 2nm fab and $30,000 per wafer, a 50 percent increase in chipmaking costs as complexity rises (www.tomshardware.com)

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Firm predicts it will cost $28 billion to build a 2nm fab and $30,000 per wafer, a 50 percent increase in chipmaking costs as complexity rises::As wafer fab tools are getting more expensive, so do fabs and, ultimately, chips. A new report claims that

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[-] BetaDoggo_@lemmy.world 4 points 11 months ago

Quantum computing is useless in most cases because of how fragile and inaccurate it can be, due in part to the near zero temperatures they are required to operate at.

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