Comment by trollbridge
2 months ago
I’m a little puzzled how “forgot how to make CPUs” also included “forgot how to make the mechanical part of hard drives, how to make flash memory, and how to make other chips”. I guess I don’t think of a 74xx series chip as a “CPU”?
I read it as: we have millions of hard drives and flash drives with a dead controller chip, so we harvest their other parts as spares. We still know how to make the spare parts from scratch, but we have so many for free.