Comments by "kazedcat" (@kazedcat) on "Why Russia Can’t Replace TSMC" video.

  1. Intel recently rename their nodes so that they are comparable to TSMC.
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  2. All AI technology needs advance processors. We are now at the age of drone warfare. The smarter the drones the more significant the advantage. Imagine a swarm of drone carrying high explosive suicide bombing the very long Russian supply line of trucks stuck in the mud in Ukraine.
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  3. Tiny drones need tiny chips. If tiny drones are smart enough to search and destroy fuel trucks they can stop the advance of an armor division.
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  4. A swarm of drones suicide bombing your very long supply lines will stop your main battle tanks from advancing. Your tanks need to refuel and they cannot do that if the fuel truck is a smoldering wrecked due to drone attack. Tiny drones needs tiny chips.
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  5.  @spicynoodle7419  If you use 90nm chip then your tiny drone will drop out of the sky before finding targets due to being too power hungry.
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  6. They are not going to catch up. The total investment on improving the semiconductor industry is enormous. Russia would bankrupt trying to match it. They also don't have the expert workforce needed to undertake the task. Even the US could not spend their way to bring the latest process node in the country. TSMC will build a 5nm fab in the US but they are already at 3nm. The semiconductor industry is a technology train that never stops and always full speed ahead. One misstep and you will be left behind with no hope of catching up. This is what is happening to Intel.
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  7.  @Flankymanga  Gold don't make EUV scanner. You need expert engineers 15 years and unlimited budget to make a prototype.
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