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I'm sure 7T is someone having a laugh, not a real thing that's actually being attempted.

I wonder what it would cost to outright buy Australia, in the sense of convincing enough voters to make you their absolute monarch…

Well, current bleeding edge semicos require like hundreds of billions if you start from 0

Meanwhile what about those materials that could allow you to make 1000x faster cpus, but we arent capable of manufacturing them at scale and also their lifespan is way shorter than silicon.

Im not saying 7T is reasonable, but if thats what he want to do, then it is very interesting and expensive as hell

I had to Google 7T. I assume you mean $7 Trillion, not some new chip or fab technology.

7T is price anchoring at it's best. When he gets 1T it will seem normal.

Or price anchoring at its worst. When he gets 100B it will look like a failure.

why not 8

https://x.com/sama/status/1758347811786281355?s=46