Z2 – Lithographically fabricated IC in a garage fab

(sam.zeloof.xyz)

356 points embedding-shape | 1 comments | 07 Dec 25 03:03 UTC | HN request time: 0.204s | source

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matheusmoreira ◴[07 Dec 25 15:46 UTC] No.46182539[source]▶

This isn't just awesome, this is world changing. Fabricating our own hardware at home is the hardware equivalent of writing our own free software at home. This will help ensure our long term computing freedom.

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embedding-shape ◴[07 Dec 25 15:51 UTC] No.46182571[source]▶

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Personally I agree, but the world doesn't seem to. Their first project (https://sam.zeloof.xyz/first-ic/) was all the way back in 2018, and it doesn't seem like it changed all too much (yet), while since I read the first blog post in 2018, I also thought we would have reached a much more mature DIY ecosystem by now.

Don't get me wrong, I'm excited too about it, and can't wait to personally do some experiments as well, although not at the same scale. But I'm not sure it's world changing, at least until I've actually seen any changes :)

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1. shash ◴[07 Dec 25 18:38 UTC] No.46183916[source]▶

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Finicky chemicals and relatively expensive equipment. But he’s founded a company with Jim Keller. We occasionally see them post a photo with zero context, but we do know some things. Like they are targeting lots volume stuff and basically building fab equipment. But not much more.

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