Quote Semiconductor supply· Dec 7, 2025

Half of semiconductor capital spending goes into lithography

“About half of the capital goes into lithography. In the middle of a lithography machine is light . . . [and] this ability to keep innovating for shorter wavelength, higher power light is the essence of being able to continue to innovate for more advanced semiconductors.”

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Pat GelsingerIntel · CEO

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Pat Gelsinger wants to save Moore’s Law, with a little help from the Feds

TechCrunch · 2025-12-07

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A year after being pushed out of Intel, Pat Gelsinger is still waking up at 4 a.m., still in the thick of the semiconductor wars — just on a different battlefield. Now a general partner at venture ...

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