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1. Vertigo #$FF (vertigo@hackers.town)'s status on Sunday, 15-Aug-2021 10:49:29 CEST Vertigo #$FF

   Home-made semiconductor fabrication techniques are getting more sophisticated. From the hacker who put 6 transistors on a chip in an amplifier configuration, behold, one thousand two hundred transistors.

   https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IS5ycm7VfXg

   (Admittedly, not configured as anything in particular yet, but the work is getting there. He's already half-way to an Intel 4004. I'm willing to bet that you can make a viable CPU with 1200 transistors if it used a bit-serial micro-architecture.)

   Blog article is here: http://sam.zeloof.xyz/second-ic/

   • Vertigo #$FF (vertigo@hackers.town)'s status on Sunday, 15-Aug-2021 10:49:27 CEST Vertigo #$FF

     in reply to

     • theruran 🌐🏴

     @theruran Yup. Remember all the nay-sayers saying this wasn't going to be possible? Because, I sure do.

     The equipment that he's using is not exactly the kind of thing you'd find at Home Depot though. He's got a fair bit of cash invested in his garage fab. Still, making chips at home. That's ... downright awesome.

   • theruran 🌐🏴 (theruran@hackers.town)'s status on Sunday, 15-Aug-2021 10:49:29 CEST theruran 🌐🏴

     in reply to

     @vertigo read 'em and weep-

     Ekaitz Zárraga 👹 repeated this.