[sdiy] Re-spin the classic ICs?

[Jess Balint]

There is a guy from MIT I think who has been working on this and they
have it in the university and have been setting it up in other
countries. He wrote a book describing the process and his vision for
the overall project, I can't remember the title but it is Fab Lab or
something, haven't read it yet...

Jess

On 5/27/05, Tom Arnold <xyzzy at sysabend.org> wrote:
> On Fri, May 27, 2005 at 09:05:43AM -0500, Paul Schreiber wrote:
> > How much money do you think all of that effort costs? Well, about $250K is
> > a good point. And now our 400,000 ICs are in the $15/$18ea range *assuming*
> > you can *sell* 400,00 at $15/$18ea. The "good" news is on a 6" fab we could
> > hit probably $5.
> 
> On the plus side, I know where there is a 2" fab that will run small runs of
> wafers.  Its in a garage about 4 houses down the street from me.  He's been
> getting the kinks out of the system for the last few months.  Yields at
> about 50% right now.  The funny part is there are a bunch of people who have
> been playing with old fab equipment, making the process more environmentally
> friendly.  I think I mentioned this a few months back, its the Next DIY...
> 
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