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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    9 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.