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Also, chip fabs keep getting more expensive and taping out a chip design for those new fabs keeps getting more expensive. That makes today's semiconductor industry work quite differently from how things worked 30 years ago and means some segments see reduced or delayed benefits from the continued progression of Moore's Law. See eg. the surprisingly long-lasting commercial relevance of 28nm, 14nm, and 7nm nodes, all of which were used in leading products like desktop GPUs and CPUs for more years than Moore's Law would lead you to expect.


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