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Somewhat related: a high school student creating his own semiconductor fav in his parent’s garage on a "budget".

https://youtube.com/watch?v=IS5ycm7VfXg

It’s a thoroughly interesting video, but I’m a bit disappointed he never took his idea any further than he did. I’d really love to see something like a 6502 being made at home.

[krishadi]

Sam is now building Atomic Semi [0] with Jim Keller (ex AMD)

[0] https://atomicsemi.com/about/#:~:text=general%20fabrication%...

[pests]

You say ex AMD like that's all he's known for. Jim Keller is like some fairy who flies around companies designing sota chips.

From DEC, to AMD, to ARM and Broadcom, his own firm, hops over to Apple which then buys his old firm, heads back to ARM and then over to Tesla and finally one last stop at Intel before going into startup land again.

Worked on the K7/K8, MIPs for networking, did the A4 and A5 for Apple, on the Zen/K12, and the Tesla TPU.

[ghghgfdfgh]

That's good for him, but it means we'll never find out in the near future whether it's possible for the average person to create useful ICs in their garage.