Zeiss covers their mirrors and lenses. The smoothness is extreme: "If you were to enlarge such a mirror to the size of Germany, the largest unevenness – the Zugspitze, so to speak – would be a whole 0.1 millimeters high."
Then they have positioning / tilt accuracy.
"If one of these EUV mirrors were to redirect a laser beam and aim it at the Moon, it would be able to hit a ping pong ball on the Moon’s surface."
What they don't say is what the yield is on these. I've heard they have to try and make X to get y that can hit all the specs.
In the machines themselves didn't they have to build in both an electron microscope and an atomic force microscope for defect detection?
And then the environment they operate in is terrible from a wavelength absorption energy / contamination (tin?) issues etc.
The semi industry is known for being very boom/bust so it’s best not to scale up too quick lest it kill your company.
At some point you're running into actual, real constraints, real bottlenecks in the supply chain, that will take years to resolve. You can't just scale up on short timeframes, no more than you can make a baby in a shorter time frame.
it's really not and actually the slowdown is so bad that AMD has had to reduce production, as well as other companies reducing memory/flash wafer starts etc.
it's not just intel or fake news, availability really hasn't been a problem for a year or more at this point, and if anything we're starting to shift into the "glut" phase of the bullwhip cycle.
Texas instruments still has not caught up, and their chips are used just about everything, including on graphics cards.
