You can potentially get sponsorship (but the chips4makers web site seems to be down) https://nlnet.nl/project/Chips4Makers/ https://nlnet.nl/project/Chips4Maker

You can potentially get sponsorship (but the chips4makers web site seems to be down) https://nlnet.nl/project/Chips4Makers/ https://nlnet.nl/project/Chips4Makers/ Long, long ago, UK academics could get fabrication done at the Rutherford lab, as I saw on a visit, presumably research council-funded but I don't know what the arrangements actually were.