Always expect someone to do the impossible. Or for a similar pure quartz deposit to be discovered. What ASML pulled off with their most advanced photolithography machines was always deemed impossible for quite a while.
You are right, and EUV is fucking insane when you actually look up how it works (gonna post a video about it later, probably in a bigger post with more videos explaining how modern hardware is physically made).
There needs to be a motivation to find another quartz deposit, is my current belief. As the primary reason we even have Spruce Pine, and most of the North American quartz mines that aren't Spruce Pine is because the one in France became unavailable after the Nazis invaded
Always expect someone to do the impossible. Or for a similar pure quartz deposit to be discovered. What ASML pulled off with their most advanced photolithography machines was always deemed impossible for quite a while.
You are right, and EUV is fucking insane when you actually look up how it works (gonna post a video about it later, probably in a bigger post with more videos explaining how modern hardware is physically made).
There needs to be a motivation to find another quartz deposit, is my current belief. As the primary reason we even have Spruce Pine, and most of the North American quartz mines that aren't Spruce Pine is because the one in France became unavailable after the Nazis invaded