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The $1 Trillion+ Bet Against ASML: Substrate

Ian Cutress dissects the hype around Peter Thiel-backed Substrate and argues that replacing ASML’s EUV stack with X-ray lithography would run into severe physics, materials, throughput, and cost barriers. He walks through the chip fab process and shows why shorter wavelengths do not automatically translate into manufacturable, economical semiconductor production.