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What if Humanity forgot how to make CPUs?
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this post was submitted on 24 Sep 2025
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The "forgetting" isn't individuals forgetting, it's about institutional memory. Individually, there might be plenty of folks who can build chips, but they might live too far apart, or there's no money in it, or whatever other mechanism which causes things to be built and the technology to continue. There's a massive bootstrapping issue.
I don't think I see it. If people need chips and no one makes em, a hobbyist becomes really valuable. And lithography touches on photography itself. We might not be able to get to the same precision as TSMC or the like but building an 8088 chip or the like should be doable. If we forgot how to make lenses, that would be worrying.