[dathinab]

They not only have no truble in buying it they likely have one or two systems.

But this systems are not easily produced neither fastely so between ordering them and getting them over a year might pass.

More importantly just having them doesn't allow you to actually use them properly. They are in a way quite a "raw" tool and the exact details of how you use them make major differences. And even if you know the best way to use them, that still doesn't mean you know the best way to create chips with them. Because chip layout (in it's details) has to be designed to fit the production process. Not doing so will lead to bad yield and or bad max. perf clock etc. Sometimes just improving how you layout some things while still using the EUV system the same way can make a major difference.

So it's not easy at all to switch.

I'm still positive they will long term manage to do so.

But it will take some time.

Which is why some parts which are not to much of their core business but can largely profit from TSCMs manufacturing process will be produced by them. And maybe as a bonus they will learn a trick or two from TSCM.

[Aperocky]

The linux from scratch of hardware world.