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The Reticle Wall: Why Packaging Became the Real Fab Constraint

Ask anyone outside the industry what limits chip progress and you will hear about transistor size. Ask anyone inside it, in 2026, and the answer is more likely to be a rectangle roughly 26 by 33 millimetres. That is the size of the field a lithography tool can expose in one pass, and it is the hard…

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  1. 2026-10-31 01:47 · DEV Community — AI
    The Reticle Wall: Why Packaging Became the Real Fab Constraint

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