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qeternity | 2 months ago

As someone with no experience in the domain, this sounds really interesting.

But one of the companies mentioned has been attempting this for 9 years.

Why hasn't this taken off already? It doesn't seem we're in need of any breakthroughs. So where do the economics break down?

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kristjank|2 months ago

Precision manufacturing at scale. The physics of merging a hundred-gigahertz-scale circuit board track into a waveguide are very unforgiving. The physics governing the tolerances of said waveguide are similar.