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The speaker says lithography, the most expensive module in a fab, has been increasing in cost faster than the overall rate of fab construction cost increases.

Unresolved speaker · What will computer chips look like in 2045? · 22 Oct 2026

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“Even inside the fab, if you look at the cost to do lithography, which is the most expensive module, uh, just patterning, that itself is doubling, like, more than that, at more than that rate, right?”
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