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
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