Comments by "Paul Frederick" (@1pcfred) on "The 300mm Silicon Wafer Transition" video.

How do they do it? Very carefully.
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The shipping cost in space remains too high. That and space has other issues. Like cosmic radiation. Which would cause silicon defects.
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You just said it. It's old tech. It's not easy to keep 20 year old technology running. How many 20 year old PCs do you see being used today? The software that tech runs on needs that vintage hardware to work. The dummies used proprietary OSes. 20 year old Windows NT won't run on modern hardware either.
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@shopshop144 the problem is maintenance. You can't fix this machinery in house and the companies that make the machines are not offering long term maintenance contracts either. It's just not how people are thinking in the industry. Old fabs get scrapped. No one's into restoring them. It doesn't make sense to build old machines when the best customers all want new machines. You chase money where it's at.
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@SviatoslavDamaschin you're not running real time controls in an emulator successfully. That's never going to happen. It is unlikely the software you're running belongs to you on the Windows platform either. So you're not going to rewrite it. Because you didn't write it in the first place.
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@SviatoslavDamaschin a company making hardware may not have the software talent to write the code they need. Or it may not be economically viable for them to invest in what it costs to create software. Generally the cost is amortized across a number of clients. It doesn't pay to just write software for yourself. They simply might not have the time. Most people need things done yesterday. Not the years that development takes.
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