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Semi-Literate
Personal blog · semiliterate.substack.comeconomicshardwarepolitics
Semi-Literate is a personal blog at semiliterate.substack.com about economics, hardware and politics. Since 2021, 3 different Hacker News readers have linked it 4 times. The last post was in 2023, but the archive is still widely read.
Too few sampled comments (1) to say how often HN recommends it.?
Why HN links it
HN readers link this Substack to explain why making EUV chips is hard, in a thread about startups failing to catch up to chipmakers. The one comment cites it without judging the writing.
Summarised by Claude from a sample of 1 HN comments that link here. Each comment is marked recommending, critical or neutral (citing without judging); how this works.
Semiconductors, public policy, China, trade.
What Hacker News says?
Making EUV chips is hard: https://semiliterate.substack.com/p/why-cant-china-just-reve... . (Note, “BLUF” at the start means “Bottom Line Up Front.”)
Comment linking /p/why-cant-china-just-reverse-engineer
on “Two startups tried to catch up to makers of advanced computer chips, and failed”Submitted How to make it easier to build semiconductor factories as a story · 76 points
HN discussionSubmitted Spotting the Next Big Thing in Semiconductors as a story · 2 points
HN discussionSubmitted From TSMC to Tungsten: Semiconductor Supply Chain Risks as a story · 1 points
HN discussion