[guepe]

Note that growing ingots is an incredible feat at that purity and size that they achieve on earth. It’s already a very very hard step in a crazy process for entire chip manufacturing.

[RobotToaster]

Leaving aside the small issue of getting there, wouldn't it be easier to achieve in space given there is fewer impurities like air floating around?

[stevenwoo]

Even given that the sending finished products back to earth in same clean room conditions for next step seems challenging to make profitable. If it’s a proof of concept, okay, but to take it further the lithography step takes RV sized machines.