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Vaniver comments on Open Thread, October 13 - 19, 2013 - Less Wrong Discussion

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Comment author: Vaniver 17 October 2013 07:43:21PM *  2 points [-]

there is more cross-talk between the companies than I would guess (through hiring former employees, reading patents, reverse engineering, etc.)

There is lots of cross-talk. Note also that Intel and AMD buy tools from other companies- and so if Cymer is making the lasers that both use for patterning, then neither of them has a laser advantage.