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The chip industry split into fabless designers and a handful of foundries because fabs got too expensive to own, not because anyone chose that structure.

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design How things should be made and judged: what makes a design good, who should do the designing, and what an interface is for.

semiconductors The chips and the companies that make them: NVIDIA, TSMC, ASML, and what a fab can and cannot do.

What Brian Potter actually said

  1. Brian Potter Structural engineer and writer
    But as fab costs increased, it became more and more burdensome for manufacturers to operate cutting edge manufacturing facilities due to the high costs, and fewer manufacturers had the production volume to spread those costs over.

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