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Dec 5, 2023
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Drain Todger said:
In several decades, semiconductors might not be produced with laser lithography, etching material from the top down. Instead, they might be "grown" from the bottom up, using enzymatic catalysts that deposit chip features on a substrate.
Another thing I should mention is that this isn't sci-fi, either. This is an area of active, ongoing study.

https://www.mdpi.com/2079-4991/11/7/1655#

https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC8146645/

This has massive geostrategic implications. Imagine if, a decade or two from now, anyone could have a chip fab in their basement. Just smear some engineered live bacterial culture on a wafer and there you go. Semiconductor.

What if EUV machines and Taiwan suddenly became strategically irrelevant? What if China lost their blackmail card? I guarantee you, there are strategists in China, right now, who are thinking about this shit, and racing to commercialize biomanufacturing before anyone else.
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