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OPINION | TRADE CHAT
I’m not just talking about overpriced graphics cards, but the underlying cost of manufacturing advanced integrated circuits. A chip manufacturing expert from Google, Milind Shah, thinks so, recently declaring that the per-transistor cost stalled as far back as the 28nm node over a decade ago. That’s pretty worrying, but it can’t possibly be true. Here’s why.