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Re:22-year-old builds chips in his parents’ garage by hn_throwaway_99 on Sunday January 23, 2022 @11:45AM (#30047635)
Agreed! Such a cool project.

Regarding the custom photolithography machine, I recall seeing some pictures of chip workers from the 70s that essentially did the same thing.

A group of women (I'm pretty sure it was all women) were responsible for manually drawing out (actually more like cutting out) the chip designs on these big sheets, which were then projected down to create the photoresist masks.

Re:22-year-old builds chips in his parents’ garage by michaelt on Sunday January 23, 2022 @12:50PM (#30048380)