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Inside the global battle over chip manufacturing
Decoder with Nilay Patel
Is There a Limit to Moore's Law?
Moore's law is a prediction that the chip industry will double the density of transistors on a chip every year. We are already talking about having to fire lasers at a ball of tin through the world's flat of smears and then building hyperspecific optics to make them even smaller. At some point you're running out of things to even measure, like Intel had to move to Angstroms instead of centimeters. Will China ever catch up to the cutting edge? I think it's inevitable that China catches up to the current status quo at some point," he says.
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