One in five companies surveyed say that significant manual effort and traditional spreadsheets are used for production planning and optimization.

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Iterating the design and manufacturing planning as the chip evolves toward production allows for the optimization of both.

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Optimization of this kind now dominates all professional content production on the web and shapes our experience as consumers of that content.

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Keep in mind these early results are based off of pre-production hardware and final units could yield welcome improvements in the form of software optimization.

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Most of the world needs solutions to problems we rarely talk about, in areas like health care, agricultural production, sustainable construction, citizen activism and empowerment, childhood education, affordable transportation, supply chain optimization, community solidarity and efficacy, etc.

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