RE: Question About The Future of Chip Manufacturing

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A while ago, CNC was a very specialized market.
Today, you can get kits to CNC your Mill, lathe, or even built a CNC router.

3D printing has made this even more ubiquitous and cheap and easy to access.

Sooo, creating chips is not that hard, every step is easy.
However, you are working in tiny tiny units, where things like vibration of motors affects the outcome.

Anyway, it isn't a stretch for a person with enough drive, to start making something as complex as an 8080 in a homegrown die etching system.

However, there is so many little pieces, and the journey is long. The little pieces stack up.
And a tiny failure, any failure, destroys the whole chip.

But once someone gets a small CPU level chip, then these may become ubiquitous as 3D printers today.



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But once someone gets a small CPU level chip, then these may become ubiquitous as 3D printers today.

I cannot wait to see this happen. We can start replacing smaller chips on various devices like home appliances improve the craft from there. We need to get the 100th monkey effect working on this democratization of hardware.

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