It’s kind of ironic, but one of the main drivers of improved computer performance is in fact… improved computer performance. To design ever-faster chips, you need ever-faster chips, and that’s true at several layers of the processor design process. At the very beginning, when actually creating these chips, companies like TSMC spend immense
Source: Hot Hardware – NVIDIA cuLitho GPU-Accelerates Chip Fab Lithography For A Huge Efficiency Lift