cool, put this into whitepaper

seems everyone in semiconductor fabrication is hitting some quantum shit the executives have no patience for https://www.anandtech.com/print/13277/globalfoundries-stops-all-7nm-development GlobalFoundries Stops All 7nm Development: Opts To Focus on Specialized Processes

interesting. what do you mean by "hitting some quantum shit" though? article does not really elaborate on the reason why they stopped 7nm fab

"The CTO stressed that the decision was made not based on technical issues that the company faced, but on a careful consideration of business opportunities the company had with its 7LP platform as well as financial concerns."

for context i've spent a few summers in a clean room during university fighting such quantum boogiemen, details thereof are usually not very universally accessible, but looking into plasmonics is a good starting point for peering into that world

a good primer question is 'how does the photon momentum shifting and angle preservation *actually* work in reflection'

as in i predict the non-cto execs just glaze over and eventually run out of patience for the delays

exterme ultra violet lithography has been a pipe dream now for over 20 years

there you go, something similar they're fighting with, but there's the history of the eternal promise at least https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Extreme_ultraviolet_lithography#Deployment_history Extreme ultraviolet lithography (also known as EUV or EUVL) is a next-generation lithography technology using an extreme ultraviolet (EUV) wavelength, currently expected to be 13.5 nm. EUV is currently being developed for high volume use by 2020.

and here's a decent primer https://www.photonics.ethz.ch/fileadmin/user_upload/Courses/NanoOptics/plasmonss.pdf