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The post Xitter web has spawned soo many “esoteric” right wing freaks, but there’s no appropriate sneer-space for them. I’m talking redscare-ish, reality challenged “culture critics” who write about everything but understand nothing. I’m talking about reply-guys who make the same 6 tweets about the same 3 subjects. They’re inescapable at this point, yet I don’t see them mocked (as much as they should be)
Like, there was one dude a while back who insisted that women couldn’t be surgeons because they didn’t believe in the moon or in stars? I think each and every one of these guys is uniquely fucked up and if I can’t escape them, I would love to sneer at them.
(Last substack for 2025 - may 2026 bring better tidings. Credit and/or blame to David Gerard for starting this.)
@cstross @mirrorwitch they’ve built an EUV light source, that’s a critical component but that’s not a EUV machine.
They still need to develop all kind of other sub-systems, some completely unique to EUV.
The EUV radiation is absorbed even by gases, let alone lenses. They need to create the tech for the extremely accurate lenses.
The handling and placement of the wafers must also match the nanometer precision of the projection.
So they have a ways to go before they’ve built a EUV-machine.
To use the precision of an EUV machine you need lots and lots of knowledge, skill and experience. The fabs value that IP very highly and protect it accordingly.
Chips rivalling TSMC’s will take a good while to come out of China’s home-grown machines.
They’ll get there eventually, but the rest of the world isn’t sitting idle while they do…