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nehal3myesterday at 8:57 PM2 repliesview on HN

Except everything that runs on electricity has a CPU nowadays; the world as it is cannot function without computing. Your bank, your (municipal) government, airplanes, ships, satellites, televisions, the cell network, cash registers, you get the picture.

I realize the CPU's that requires won't implode on day one, but computing becoming unaffordable or even economically unfeasible will have disastrous knock on effects.


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ThrowawayR2yesterday at 9:30 PM

There are literally hundreds of semiconductor fabs of various types and process nodes spread all around the world ( https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_semiconductor_fabricat... ) and the most common chips are fabricated on older, larger process nodes anyway.

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throw-the-towelyesterday at 11:27 PM

(Sorry for the digression, but your username really does check out in a discussion about CPUs.)