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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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[โ€“] [email protected] 17 points 11 months ago (1 children)

The ratio of people who are capable of writing less-shitty software to the number of things we want to do with software ensures this problem will not get solved anytime soon.

[โ€“] [email protected] 9 points 11 months ago

The ratio of people who are capable of writing less-shitty software to the number of things we want to do with software ensures this problem will not get solved anytime soon.

Eh I disagree. Every software engineer I've ever worked with knows how to make some optimizations to their code bases. But it's literally never prioritized by the business. I suspect this will shift as IaaS takes over and it's a lot easier to generate the necessary graphs showing the stability of your product being maintained while the consumed resources has been reduced.