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The speaker says AI's share of leading-edge wafer capacity cannot continue rising once it has absorbed all available capacity.
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“AI will have gone from 60% to 86%. At some point, you have just absorbed all leading edge wafer capacity for AI.”
“AI and you can't keep increasing this number.”Play from 8:38Report a misattribution
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