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Hwaseong, South Korea, past midnight. An engineer watches a defect pattern surface on her screen – the kind that, caught now, saves a week of wafers.

News - South China Morning Post reports that hwaseong, South Korea, past midnight.

The report adds: An engineer watches a defect pattern surface on her screen – the kind that, caught now, saves a week of wafers.

She is locked in, fully absorbed, the way engineers get when a breakthrough is close.

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