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guepelast Saturday at 10:55 AM1 replyview on HN

Note that growing ingots is an incredible feat at that purity and size that they achieve on earth. It’s already a very very hard step in a crazy process for entire chip manufacturing.


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RobotToasterlast Saturday at 1:21 PM

Leaving aside the small issue of getting there, wouldn't it be easier to achieve in space given there is fewer impurities like air floating around?

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