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How practical would it to open source advanced chip designs and focus on making them easy to make. Could it be possible to spin up a fab within a few years at
by 999900000999 4y ago
How practical would it to open source advanced chip designs and focus on making them easy to make.
Could it be possible to spin up a fab within a few years at a price or under 10 million. Even if your designs are 10 or 15 years behind that's better than nothing.
Or I guess you could establish an electrics recycling program and strip old GameCubes...
- sct202 4y agoIt's going to cost a lot more than $10m or you're going to have to start a lot simpler. This year, Tower Semiconductor (soon to be part of Intel) has proposed spending $3b on joint venture fab in India that will produce 65nm chips which was cutting edge 17 years ago. TSMC's Japanese plant is $9b for 28nm which is 10 years old.
- 999900000999 4y agoI was more thinking about a professional version of this ? https://www.wired.com/story/22-year-old-builds-chips-parents-garage/ https://www.wired.com/story/22-year-old-builds-chips-parents... Even if we all had to start using chips from the 2000s again, we'd survive.
- throwaway4good 4y agoThere was this create your own chip with Google a while back: https://www.fossi-foundation.org/2020/06/30/skywater-pdk https://www.fossi-foundation.org/2020/06/30/skywater-pdk I don't know what came of it.