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• Qualification is an indispensable step on the path to legitimization for any new technology, but it’s still just one step: markets tend to remain unswayed without a co-sign from an...
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Qualification is an indispensable step on the path to legitimization for any new technology, but it’s still just one step: markets tend to remain unswayed without a co-sign from an established corporate giant. TSMC spent years qualifying its semiconductor manufacturing process in order to land its deal with Apple, which would, ultimately, permanently change the industry. But the industry only really changed once the partnership between the iPhone maker and the chip foundry was publicly confirmed.
In the additive manufacturing (AM) industry, Apple has played a similar role, if only on a much smaller scale thus far, in its confirmations over the last few years that the company is increasingly incorporating AM into its workflows. The additive construction (AC) market segment may have just ha