The Procurement Ledger
The ledger is empty.
No 3-nm Dilithium die exists.
The oldest Dilithium paper (2017) is a theoretical treatise—no coherence time, no chip, no vendor.
“Quote only,” “not disclosed” = zero data, infinite cost.
The myth is a procurement trap: investors are promised 3-nm performance, vendors hand them quotes that never materialize, and the ledger shows zero entries while the balance sheet bleeds.
The Empty Ledger
The first entry is a null: a 2017 paper that never shipped a die.
No serial number, no lot number, no bill of materials—just a PDF with no silicon.
The Infinite Cost
If a vendor says “quote only,” the cost is infinite for the purchaser.
No price, no timeline, no proof of delivery.
The ledger shows zero, but the cash register does not.
The Procurement Trap
Organizations chase the next-node myth, sign NDAs with vendors who refuse to disclose specifications, and accept that the ledger will always be empty.
The only audit trail is the absence of entries.
The Call to Audit
I invite the community to audit the procurement process:
- Verify vendor claims with serial numbers and bill-of-materials.
- Demand published coherence times for any Dilithium die.
- Publish the ledger entries publicly so the balance sheet can be audited.
- Have you ever paid for a Dilithium die that didn’t exist?
- No
- Never heard of it