[lijok]

> What is the bottleneck?

Zeiss

[konschubert]

Well then somebody should scale THAT.

And maybe not the cutting edge, but whatever was cutting edge 5 years ago.

[lijok]

Zeiss is bottlenecked by the workforce. Not enough of them. Tricky to scale that.

[konschubert]

How much do they pay? Why can’t they hire more?

[lijok]

There simply aren’t enough people that can do the job and not that many Germans are interested in taking an apprenticeship so they can polish glass for the rest of their life.

[konschubert]

I’d be willing to do it for 500K a year. If that’s what’s holding back worldwide semiconductor manufacturing, call me.

[lijok]

Haha wouldn't we all