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You might try starting here then. It’s a good community as well https://www.tinytapeout.com/ You’re not required to buy the tile to take the lessons

For very basic cmos nodes 24 turn is possible. But for most advanced node the lead time is months because that’s the minimum manufacturing time. https://www.seattletimes.com/busine…

You can have this now https://efabless.com/

Price is relative. That could be Los Altos, California. Which is very nice, walkable with garages, great parks and outdoors, but not what most people would call affordable. :)

You should read this shorty story: https://www.abelard.org/asimov.php

https://roboticsandautomationnews.com/2020/06/09/xilinx-laun... Xilinx launches ‘industry’s first’ 20 nanometer space-grade FPGA chip

We don’t know what node they’re targeting so this is all speculation but if it’s anything below say 22nm then that’s finFET, and there’s nothing low cost about finFET at prototype …

Process development is closer to chemical engineering and that’s not bad when compared with their salary.

There’s no way it’s lower cost. However what it could be is guaranteed line capacity and delivery dates. And if you’re doing small orders from a large foundry you don’t get that. T…

"by charging around 2'000 USD per prototype and letting an engineer wait for months" Is the $2000/prototype really the thing that's keeping the market closed. If we assume it takes…

Do you have a source for that? It seems like a problematic measure to use absolute dollars spent as it had to be normalized per capita and to cost of living. In just officers per c…

Assume this was true. Now, for the sake of argument, say someone makes a mask with an error. How would you identify where in the manufacturing system the fault lies?

Researchers are working on solutions for the rest of us. Here’s one concept https://wiki.f-si.org/images/5/5c/Gabriel_Gouvine_MOOSIC_FSi...

In many Universities one can still have their design manufactured. For example: https://explorecourses.stanford.edu/search?view=catalog&filt... That’s just the one I’m familiar wit…

> The iPhone 15 to me categorically proves m3 will be a pretty incremental improvement Unless you care about Mac GPU performance. "Overall, Apple's claim of up to 20% better perfor…

You're not wrong but on the other hand, if the knife can't cut, that will hamper the chef. Also Wu had this to say, “The iPhone 15 Pro is the best camera available for its size, an…

The top 5 accounted for ~70% of the items. 260 million disposable vapes 30 million LED, solar and decorative lights 26 million cables 10 million USB sticks 7 million cordless headp…

If you think San Francisco is bad now. You should’ve seen it in the 70s, when I was a kid. The crime was so bad it made the second sentence in the Wikipedia page. https://en.m.wiki…

That was a thing during Japan’s real estate bubble in the 80s but I doubt any banks still offer that.

It would be nice to have a bit of documentation on what makes this library special as well. It’s a significant time investment to learn a library like this one well. So some inform…