(this is to say nothing about much human labor is involved in making, say, steppers. even just _setting one up_ in a fully prepared environment is thousands of hours before it starts doing anything useful)
@whitequark✧✦Catherine✦✧ Pull the particle filters from a modern fab's air conditioning system for 15 minutes and that fab will never be making anything ever again.
My understanding is that much of the equipment will be functionally *destroyed*.
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