There are efforts such as https://libresilicon.com/ https://libresilicon.com/ to design open source processes to manufacture silicon chips at the small scale. I

There are efforts such as https://libresilicon.com/ https://libresilicon.com/ to design open source processes to manufacture silicon chips at the small scale. I am hopeful that these efforts will bring down one-off cost to the 10k USD level or less.