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Gate-all-around transistors and backside power delivery bought the industry another decade. The deeper problem underneath — Dennard scaling's collapse and doubling fab costs — is the one nobody has a clean fix for yet.
Samsung competes with TSMC for advanced-logic customers and with SK hynix for memory customers, using entirely different technology and entirely different scoreboards. Coverage that treats "Samsung" as one competition misses both.
Most countries rebuilding a domestic chip industry start with a mature node and work up. Japan's state-backed Rapidus is attempting to go straight to 2-nanometer production by 2027 — with IBM's help and more than 60 companies watching.