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JEMC said:

Well, I mean, why spend all that money booking space for a new node when you won't be able to pass that extra cost (and "a bit" more) to the consumer because a) sales are going down; and b) it turns out that not every PC user is willing to spend an atrocious amount of money on new parts.

Might as well scale back to a less cutting edge node that's less expensive or delay it until the economic situation gets better and/or the new node gets a bit cheaper.

It's not like we have a lot of die shrinks left anyway. Might as well save nodes for later on while thinking ahead your business strategy.