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make no sense since Rapidus 2nm process is from IBM.


idk which shocking, Japanese company try to steal TSMC or IBM have 2nm process out of nowhere


IBM has kept researching in Albany. They license manufacturing technology to other parties even if they gave up trying to build their own fabrication facilities a decade ago.


"Out of nowhere" would be a stretch. IBM may not have mass-market volume anymore but they kept up the production chain to build mainframes (and I would guess other "specialty" products) for institutional customers.


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IBM has been publicly working toward 2nm since at least 2021, though, so it doesn't seem like it's coming from nowhere. Unless this is a completely different 2nm development, here's a presser about it from 2021, titled "Introducing the world's first 2 nm node chip" (https://research.ibm.com/blog/2-nm-chip)


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What’s going on big guy? Maybe take a break from commenting


I thought HN commenter would be smart people, turns out they just good at Tech and sucks at everything else


> since Rapidus 2nm process is from IBM

Unless it has great yields with 0 issues, there's always things to learn from. It's also possible the IBM process isn't what it seems and there's more to it.


We can make hypersonic missiles.

I still want to get a look at China's. Right down to the metallurgy.




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