[skadamat]

Title is definitely overblown. Roll-to-roll production is still very much a small scale process. Linear change not stepwise

[donmatito]

Piecemeal batch production to continuous roll-to-roll production is most definitely a step change.

Continuous production allows for mass production, quality monitoring, and progressively increase in width, in a way that is not possible with batch process

[GCU-Empiricist]

That said wasn't the state of the art production previously measured in single digit square centimeters?

[rdruxn]

This might just be my confirmation bias speaking, but MIT seems to put out a lot of moverblown and clickbait-y headlines about their research.

[hprotagonist]

This is the case for every press release office for every research university, I'm afraid. Some just get broader attention.