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Re:Standard cells: Looking at individual gates in the Pentiu... by crote on Sunday July 07, 2024 @03:16PM (#40899754)
There are open-source PDKs[0] for education, research, and R&D - but they extremely rare and decades behind state-of-the-art.

Nobody wants to give away trade secrets, so everything remains proprietary and behind an NDA until it has become completely obsolete.

[0]: https://www.skywatertechnology.com/sky130-open-source-pdk/

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