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• The additive manufacturing (AM) industry naturally wants to move beyond prototyping to production at scale, and the industry is certainly starting to demonstrate success with that objective, especially in Asia....
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The additive manufacturing (AM) industry naturally wants to move beyond prototyping to production at scale, and the industry is certainly starting to demonstrate success with that objective, especially in Asia. Still, every vertical in the midst of adopting AM is in its own unique phase of technical maturity, and the path from prototyping to production looks slightly different for every application.
Additionally, every vertical that the AM industry is targeting has its own approach to R&D, and nowhere is this more apparent than with the semiconductor sector. To put things in perspective, the semiconductor sector is currently spending an estimated $150-200 billion annually on R&D, which is around 9x the size of the entire AM industry. Additionally, the revolution in chip packaging that I’v