Ben Thompson

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Sharp Tech with Ben Thompson · (Preview) Inference in the Agentic Future, xAI Is Two Companies in One, Q&A on Elon’s Lawsuit, Intel, Apple · 15 May 2026 podcast

And usually at a wafer, uh, you're limited by the size of the reticle limit. podcast-host

Use it. podcast-host

The reticle limit is the lens basically for your lithography and how much of the chip it covers, which uh you know, it that usually that's the size of a chip. podcast-host

I I don't have the numbers in front of me. podcast-host

I they're in my article. podcast-host

There podcast-host

Well, so what you have to do though is if you want a bigger and bigger chip, like Blackwell, is actually two chips fused together. podcast-host

And those two chips are defined the the size of them is defined by the retical limit, and then they have to put an interposer to let them communicate and expose themselves to the system as one chip, even though they're actually two chips linked together. podcast-host

Uh Apple's, I think they're ultra chips is like sort of subject. podcast-host

Something different. podcast-host

And so the idea is on a big wafer, you have podcast-host

the the bigger the chips, the more expensive because you have to you're more likely to have yield problems because if there's a defect on on the chip, but you're gonna have a number of chips that are defined by the retical limit. podcast-host

What Cerebrus has done is basically figure they developed a technology to podcast-host

I now I'm forgetting the name. podcast-host

There's an the lines between all the reticle exposures have a scribes, I think. podcast-host

Ascribe limits. podcast-host

I I should have to have this in front of me. podcast-host

But they they basically run wires across that so that you do a bunch of exposures limited by the reticle limit over the chip of all the different part of the chips. podcast-host

And then they do this additional step of adding in all these lines across these sort of boundaries so that the entire way. podcast-host

Wafer is one chip. podcast-host

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