New non-lithography semiconductor techniques discovered within 1-2 years, manufactured at scale in 5-7 years

New non-lithography semiconductor techniques discovered within 1-2 years, manufactured at scale in 5-7 years | Something will get discovered in the next year or two using current LLM AI running on GPUs that will then dictate a very different non-lithography future. But it'll probably be five or six or seven years before those start getting manufactured at the same scale as lithography

Something will get discovered in the next year or two using current LLM AI running on GPUs that will then dictate a very different non-lithography future. But it'll probably be five or six or seven years before those start getting manufactured at the same scale as lithography

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