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The Tolerance for Error in the Chip Industry
One company in Taiwan is making 90% of these advanced semiconductors. It still kind of goes against what we think of as the rules of technological advancement, doesn't it? In the chip industry, if you have errors measuring in the billions of a meter, your entire chip can be, can not function correctly. You've got to be able to manufacture transistors the size of a virus by the billions for each single chip and the scope for error is tiny.