• Tretiak@lemmy.ml
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    1 year ago

    Semiconductor manufacturing is something you absolutely can ‘not’ cost cut on. The level of labor and capital intensity and investment required is enormous.

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      1 year ago

      Yeeep! I did a two year program where I actually designed and fabbed myself some small things in an actual semiconductor research lab. It was quite the complicated place, and being that close to near pure hydrochloric acid was scary stuff.