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Z2 – Lithographically fabricated IC in a garage fab

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356 points embedding-shape | 2 comments | 07 Dec 25 03:03 UTC | HN request time: 0.416s | source
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colesantiago ◴[07 Dec 25 07:21 UTC] No.46179874[source]▶
Although this is in 2021, it's great to see that Sam Zeloof also made Atomic Semi [0].

A display of "just doing things", no permission needed and no need for barriers and red tape.

It is another reason why I have huge promise for Substrate [1] founded by James Proud (UK native moved to US) another display of "just doing things".

However in Europe and the UK, it's "this law allows you to do this, this and this", "we've changed the law, here is a massive immediate fine", "ban encryption" (this nearly happened), "ban maths", "we are the first to regulate and ban this".

It is no wonder the US will continue to be great at building things.

[0] https://atomicsemi.com/

[1] https://substrate.com/

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1. iNerdier ◴[07 Dec 25 09:31 UTC] No.46180388[source]▶
It’s also worth seeing how many US superfund sites are on former chip fabs. Intel, AMD, Fairchild etc. all just dumped things down the drains.

Regulations can be bad but they can also stop environmental disasters from happening.

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2. goku12 ◴[07 Dec 25 11:57 UTC] No.46181118[source]▶
> Regulations can be bad but they can also stop environmental disasters from happening.

It makes me wonder how bad the situation is, when you feel the need to start your sentence with 'regulations can be bad', while corporations fight you for their right to release PFAS into your drinking water sources.