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by Terribledactyl 3329 days ago
Part of the chipmaking process is burning layers into wafers covered in photoreceptive material. Photomasks/reticles used to cover entire wafers making many units at once, but now the processes are so small they have to compress the image (4-10 times is typical), burn a couple units, step over repeat on the same wafer. This GPU is so large, they can only fit 1 of them in a single burn step.