> Eventually I think we'll see litho equipment make its way into the niche market similar to 3d printers... Won't you be better served with a FPGA? Are there a

> Eventually I think we'll see litho equipment make its way into the niche market similar to 3d printers... Won't you be better served with a FPGA? Are there any cases, besides hobby projects, where making you own silicon on a process many generations behind the state of the art would make sense? With 3D printers, there are parts that are simply impossible to make without them, and there is no programmable plastic, so it makes sense to use them. In fact, we are starting to see entire factories churning out plastic parts from FDM printers not so different from what consumers buy. In the case of Prusa, they even make the parts using the same printers they sell to consumers.