A platform: aka the foundation under the bank.

The material cement that allows chips to exist above it.

And the platform is made of time: ours.

If TSMC is a platform, then why doesn't it have an App Store?

	▲	jubilanti 8 hours ago \| parent [-]
		They do, you only get access to it if you're comissioning chips.

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overcast 8 hours ago | parent | prev [-]

ASML is the foundation. Without them, none of this would exist.

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petcat 8 hours ago | parent [-]

I think we can go even further and say that IBM, Zeiss, several Japanese companies, and even the US Department of Energy are the actual foundation since ASML is largely just an integrator of many different technologies they license from elsewhere.

	▲	overcast 4 hours ago \| parent \| next [-]
		We can go even further, all of the mining companies! Or even further, and the dead stars that exploded!
	▲	MachineMan 6 hours ago \| parent \| prev [-]
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