Firm predicts it will cost $28 billion to build a 2nm fab and $30,000 per wafer, a 50 percent increase in chipmaking costs as complexity rises::As wafer fab tools are getting more expensive, so do fabs and, ultimately, chips. A new report claims that

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    11 months ago

    Use that money to speed the process of quantum computing so it will make these transistor chips obsolete

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      11 months ago

      Quantum computing wouldn’t make these transistors obsolete.

      Quantum computing is only really good at very specific types of calculations. You wouldn’t want it being used for the same type of job that the CPU handles.

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      11 months ago

      Quantum computing is useless in most cases because of how fragile and inaccurate it can be, due in part to the near zero temperatures they are required to operate at.