Technology
Why Semiconductor Manufacturing Is So Hard to Replicate
Chip fabrication concentrated in a handful of sites for reasons that money alone does not solve. The bottleneck is accumulated process knowledge.
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Marcus Ihejirika
Technology Correspondent
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Marcus Ihejirika covers the technology industry as a business story: what it costs to build, who funds it and where the money is actually made. He writes about infrastructure, semiconductors and software economics, and is sceptical of claims that a technology is inevitable.
- Covers semiconductors, cloud infrastructure and software economics
Stories by Marcus Ihejirika
Technology
How Cloud Pricing Works, and Where the Bill Comes From
Compute is the line item everyone watches. Storage, egress and the managed services around them are frequently where the money actually goes.
Technology
What 'AI Inference Costs' Actually Means for a Business
Training gets the headlines. For most companies deploying models, the recurring cost that decides viability is inference.
