Posted on 01/25/2022 8:12:39 AM PST by DUMBGRUNT
The biggest hurdle is an electron microscope for examining the features of his transistors. A good friend found a broken one and with $1000, a fair amount of know how and a lot of time they were able to repair it to working condition. As for the photolithography device? The light from a conference room projector is beamed through a microscope to trigger the light sensitive coating on his wafers
Zeloof’s chip was his second. He made the first, much smaller one as a high school senior in 2018; he started making individual transistors a year before that. His chips lag Intel’s by technological eons, but Zeloof argues only half-jokingly that he’s making faster progress than the semiconductor industry did in its early days. -------------------- Zeloof started at Carnegie Mellon University, hacking on pieces of garage fab equipment in his dorm room while studying electrical engineering. Although he says he followed safety protocols, the university took exception to the x-ray machine in his dorm room
While Intel has a lot more money, it also has a long history of difficulties living up to the promises they make to the American government, meanwhile Sam Zeloof has already built his fab and his process technology is shrinking at a much higher pace than Intel’s.
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Well tell me if it actually works
Just because you can do photolithography doesn’t mean you’ve made a workable IC
“But it will be of no use to anyone.”
Incorrect. A completely secure processor, even one that’s not so sophisticated, would be immensely valuable to a lot of people and for a lot of applications.
“Incorrect. A completely secure processor, even one that’s not so sophisticated, would be immensely valuable to a lot of people and for a lot of applications.”
Name one. Note that a processor is only as secure as the software it is running.
Yes. If you want innovation, do the innovative design work for a new chip and have a foundry make it. There are plenty of for-hire foundries that will do that work at any scale you want.
The big plus is that he is obviously a very smart, hands-on, well educated and ambitious kid. He is going to have a great career ahead of him. Companies will hire him quickly — unless they have gone so woke that he doesn’t meet their Diversity-Inclusion-Equity (DIE) criteria and he’s the wrong skin color.
He can design his own chip and have a foundry use a 4 nm process to make it. He leverages the foundry expertise to make 4 nm chips and he innovates on the secure design.
Running his own lab is fun, gives him great hands-on experience, and will land him a great job.
But the notion that such a small fab would be a commercial success is silly. It reminds me of Mao’s effort to make iron in backyard furnaces. All the Chinese sheeple fell for it because of the cult of Mao (and to avoid a bullet in the back of the head), but all it produced was very low quality and largely useless pig iron.
—”Name one. “
Tell us about the EPROM that controls the fuel system in your handsome ride?
Factory and EPA approved?
And should you prefer a few more ponies?
“And should you prefer a few more ponies?”
Been there, done that. Upgraded from 720 to 750 hp with a ten minute flash.
Factory now has a 780 hp tune available.
—”Well tell me if it actually works”
Video shows it used in a guitar pedal as explained in the article.
bfl
His assistant is a Boson`s Mate.
—”Factory now has a 780 hp tune available.”
The EPA shut down with prejudice most of the 3rd part chips...
And perhaps you prefer to modify the torque band to keep the front down??? Or anything else.
Bingo!
And, 4. You can simply test and interconnect multiples of your 1000 transistor circuits rather than build 1M+ plus substrates at incredibly small lines, multi-layers, vias, interconnects, etc. Plus, a failure of a 1K piece can easily be replaced, whereas a failure of the 1M+ piece can be catastrophic.
“Video shows it used in a guitar pedal “
I missed that part ...
“The EPA shut down with prejudice most of the 3rd part chips...”
No 3rd party chip. Replace original tune via software download.
Fascinating. And here I thought I was hot stuff writing 6502 assembly routines in high school.
“You can simply test and interconnect multiples of your 1000 transistor circuits rather than build 1M+ plus “
Great if you want a device that runs slow as heck and barely fits in a 2-car garage.
Bttt.
5.56mm
In a large computer circuit it is not that easy to figure out which component has failed. IBM had full time engineers on site with every mainframe they deployed.
—””No 3rd party chip. Replace original tune via software download.”
Yes, I understand the process.
But not everyone finds the factory/epa settings optimal for their needs?
You can sometimes find them offshore...
And some believe bitcoin does not leave a trail?
I’m from the EPA and just here to help...Mind if I look around?
Please sign the consent form so we can review your OBD output...
—” I thought I was hot stuff writing 6502 assembly routines in high school.”
I’m impressed!
I have a brother in law that thinks in machine language and is very well remunerated.
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