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by tcaxle 105 days ago
> It is a miracle of human ingenuity that we can etch 100 billion transistors onto a piece of rock we dug out of the ground.

I know this is probably a deliberate simplification as part of a rhetorical flourish but one of my favourite parts about semiconductors is the fact that we don't dig up the rocks, we grow them to order. The though fills me with childlike wonder...