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Not all chip foundry customers want or need the latest greatest nodes. We can see this in the current chip shortages, all those dozens of embedded CPUs needed in cars, and in other consumer devices aren't sub-10nm designs. The vast majority of chip manufacturing is actually at fairly pedestrian nodes for cost reasons.



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