Comments by "kazedcat" (@kazedcat) on "What Goes On Inside a Semiconductor Wafer Fab" video.

We do but mostly it is some form of witch brew that does something useful in the past. Microchip fabrication is in another level of complexity comparable to summoning the demon to do something for you.
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We do have an organic process to manufacture things. This is how we produce RNA vaccines. The process is a lot messier and a lot slower than the physical plasma assisted process of chip fabrication.
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@Urgelt In theory it sounds good but in reality you have protein misfolding, genetic mutation, offsite interaction, ionization damage, stochastic side reaction. Biological processes are very very messy.
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@Urgelt But the problems are fundamental to the system. You can't simply stop genetic mutation or prevent protein misfolding. A very basic problem for chip fabrication is validation and testing. In biotech this is equivalent to identifying cancerous cells and then removing them. Curing cancer is a necessary step to be able to validate and bin functional biomachines. Unless we have a cure for cancer I don't believe that biomachines are technically possible.
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@Urgelt I believe the tech when it delivers the cure for cancer. Test and validations that is the minimum requirement for mass production. No one will use a smartphone that randomly gives you aids.
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