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The College Student Who Makes His Own Chips
- SavantIdiot 5y agoThis guy built a 10 micron fab in his garage and has fabbed 1200 xtor die. That's bonkers. It is odd the article claims he's not using dangerous chemicals, but yet he's using nitric acid to etch. Wonder how he got all these parts and chemicals in highschool?
- actually_a_dog 5y agoThe article quotes him as saying “I also had to deal with a number of hazardous chemicals, like hydrofluoric acid, phosphoric acid, sulfuric acid, hydrochloric acid and a number of others.” You must be misreading something.
- SavantIdiot 5y agoYou're right, I totally misread the last sentence about "impure chemicals" and it stuck in my head.
- rkagerer 5y agoThink there's a market for commercializing his techniques, akin to what happened with desktop 3D printing?
- 404mm 5y agoWow. Respect. The video from article (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IS5ycm7VfXg https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IS5ycm7VfXg) is really worth watching.
- guiambros 5y agoPreviously on HN: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=28176255 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=28176255 (79 comments) It's nice to compare with his first IC (2018): https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=28263714 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=28263714 (13 comments)