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by Sanzig 219 days ago
I agree, if anything spending money on high technology risk is Silicon Valley going back to its roots.

Nobody had a way to do silicon transistor manufacturing at scale until the traitorous eight flipped Shockley the bird and took a $1.4M seed investment from Sherman Fairchild.

Big bets on uncertain technology is what tech is supposed to be about.