How does a chip go from being an academic theory to a $10 billion R&D Project?
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Just to have an idea, a single machine to make one of those chips costs anywhere between 7 million and 100 million dollars. You need hundreds of those machines, each doing a different step, each working as much as possible, each being maintained by at least one highly paid engineer.
Then you need the people that figure out the machines, that figure out the right materials to put in the chips (me!), that figure out which specific order to perform the steps.
And then you have what most people are talking about, how to arrange the transistors and memory and so on.
*Lots* of expensive moving parts, all working together for the future of AI
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