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Jim Keller's startup is building a factory to mass-produce small chip fabs

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Re: Jim Keller's startup is building a factory to mass-produce small chip fabs

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Great! Hopefully we can get 10 year behind technology from small fabs. There's so much you can do with a laptop from 2016

With electron-beam lithography you can build transistors with gate lengths down to 1 to 3 nanometers.

Re: Jim Keller's startup is building a factory to mass-produce small chip fabs

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Is this an ASML competitor?

No, quoting the article: > only really suits prototyping and low-volume runs rather than high-volume production at commercial foundries

Aww, I really wanted a cottage industry of chip manufacturing

Re: Jim Keller's startup is building a factory to mass-produce small chip fabs

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I don't get it. How is Jim Keller running a brand new, hard tech startup while being CEO of Tenstorrent at the same time?

There are rumors Qualcomm is going to buy Tenstorrent.

Maybe not: https://finance.yahoo.com/technology/ai/articles/qualcomms-t...

Re: Jim Keller's startup is building a factory to mass-produce small chip fabs

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This is a great idea and hope it works out, especially on shoring chips back here in the states. That being said, their website is absolutely atrocious. One of the very few sites I got motion sickness from scrolling.

[1] https://fab2.com/

Re: Jim Keller's startup is building a factory to mass-produce small chip fabs

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I don't get it. How is Jim Keller running a brand new, hard tech startup while being CEO of Tenstorrent at the same time?

So Elon Musk can be the CEO of multiple companies but Jim Keller can't be CEO of two quickly growing startups?

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Earlier quoted context omitted.

No, quoting the article: > only really suits prototyping and low-volume runs rather than high-volume production at commercial foundries

Aww, I really wanted a cottage industry of chip manufacturing

I'm sorry but isn't cottage industry synonymous with small-scale manufacturing? It seems like fab2 is the definition of cottage industry chip manugacturing.
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