[sdiy] Re-spin the classic ICs?

[Dave Oleksy]

"FAB: The Coming Revolution on Your Desktop - From
Personal Computers to Personal Fabrication"
Neil Gershenfeld

--- Jess Balint <jbalint at gmail.com> wrote:

> 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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