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Andrew Haley <andrew29@littlepinkcloud.invalid> writes:
>> There is a reason why they used 32 nm process, lower cost.
> It's a PhD project.  Universities do VLSI design, and they sometimes
> do interesting things like this.  

But fabbing something in 32nm is still quite expensive.  They had to
have more justification to get it funded than "this sounds cool".