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Right. There's not a compelling reason to switch and there's more than a hint of CYA mixed in with Chesterton's Fence:

https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2016-06-09/how-intel...

> For decades, Intel’s cleanrooms have been lit like darkrooms, bathed in a deep, low yellow. “That’s an anachronism,” says Mark Bohr, a small, serious man who has spent his entire 38-year career making chips, and who’s now Intel’s top manufacturing scientist. “Nobody’s had the courage to change it.”



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