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>> Investing in local chip fabs is long overdue.

Nah, this is a bargain. Rather than chasing the technology for 50 years, they just waited until it's already mature (2nm may be the end of the road?) and spend a few billion after all the development has happened elsewhere. BTW Germany is already home to some fairly advanced non-EUV fabs with Global Foundries.




> (2nm may be the end of the road?)

from https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bremermann%27s_limit :

>However, it has been shown that access to quantum memory in principle allows computational algorithms that require arbitrarily small amount of energy/time per one elementary computation step.[6][7]

Not the end of the road.




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