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Are we finally at the point for open source, home made silicon?

cstanton
cstanton over 4 years ago

After discovering this tweet:

 

 

I clicked through to the video to discover this person's making their own silicon chips in their garage:

 

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Not everyone has this kind of home setup that this person has, however it may be the start of making hardware accessible to more than huge corporation manufacturing.

 

Eventually anyway. You can find more details at Sam Zeloof's blog.

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  • dougw
    dougw over 3 years ago +3
    Most impressive....photoshopping transistor geometries. Getting those processes to work well is probably much harder than it looks in the video.
  • navadeepganeshu
    navadeepganeshu over 4 years ago +2
    Oh, wow cool!. This is amazing.
  • 14rhb
    14rhb over 3 years ago +1
    Sam's got the right idealogy - if someone else has done it before, then he should be able to do the same. This is fantastic work - puts the word 'homemade' to the extreme. He's a genius. Not sure I could…
  • navadeepganeshu
    navadeepganeshu over 4 years ago

    Oh, wow cool!. This is amazing.

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  • 14rhb
    14rhb over 3 years ago

    Sam's got the right idealogy - if someone else has done it before, then he should be able to do the same. This is fantastic work - puts the word 'homemade' to the extreme. He's a genius.

    Not sure I could get away with safely doing the same though. Heating FeCl3 is about my limit...Sam was using HydroFluric Acid amongst other things !

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    dougw over 3 years ago

    Most impressive....photoshopping transistor geometries. Fearful

    Getting those processes to work well is probably much harder than it looks in the video.

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