His claim to fame is making small ICs in his home garage while still a teenager, fairly recently. That's no small achievement. (He seems to have had access to

His claim to fame is making small ICs in his home garage while still a teenager, fairly recently. That's no small achievement. (He seems to have had access to the kind of garage and equipment other engineering kids can only dream of though. I know someone who really wanted to do the same thing a few years earlier, who had the knowledge but couldn't get themselves a suitable place and budget to do it.)