Can one make their own chips?

From: Hans Franke <Hans.Franke_at_mch20.sbs.de>
Date: Thu Mar 13 03:22:00 2003

> > you can't make a 8008 chip from scratch

> In the discussion of wafers it made me wonder if one could lay down their own
> design in Silicon. or duplicate an early design like the 8008 (lets not get
> into a discussion of copyrights).

> Does anyone collect FAB equipment? A small clean room would not be hard to
> set up. At one time I saw a 3 inch mask aligner go for $25. I bought the 4
> inch Mask Aligner for $150. There is so much old FAB Equipment around it
> seems one should be able to set up a home lab. Does anyone know of one in
> existence?

Well, I could add a stepper table from the first 16K prototype
production here at Siemens (now Infinion) ... Beside that, I
think it may be ceaper to use comercial available capacities.

Gruss
H.

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