Semis Feeding the "Great Acceleration" of Technologies

[Arthur Hanson]

Semis used for processing, collecting, collaborating and building platforms are accelerating almost all technologies both hard and soft. This includes what the social and collaboration technologies are used for. Semis are now the foundation of collecting, collaborating and applying knowledge on a scale not dreamed up just two decades ago. This has lead to lowering the cost and increasing the penetration of all technologies similar to a nuclear chain reaction. This can be seen in almost every endeavor we touch from medical to batteries to social the technical collaboration platforms. Batteries are but one example of this with numerous technonogies coming out every year, most will fail, but a few will succeed and this applies to almost everything we touch. The rate of progress in everything is accelerating. The number of failures is increasing, but the increase in the number and impact of succeses is dramatic. It's a numbers game and semis have dramatically increased our ability to experiment on a grand, worldwide scale. Below is but one example of one of many attempts to revolutionize batteries, most will fail, but we only need a few to change the world we live in. This is now becoming true in almost every endeavor we face.

https://newatlas.com/technology/extremely-fast-charging-battery-60-percent-6-minutes/

 

[Portland]

What we should be looking out for is a 3rd party design for a photolithography system. It's a matter of when not if.

 

[Arthur Hanson]

What we should be looking out for is a 3rd party design for a photolithography system. It's a matter of when not if.

Do you have any thoughts if there is any technology that will displace any of the market share that ASML dominates in EUV?

 

[Portland]

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