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i'm not fine after reading this
a guy with a laptop got his own silicon chip manufactured with software Google gave away.
the commercial version of that software rents for up to $1,000,000 a year.
he never signed a vendor contract and never paid for a seat. he wrote the logic, pushed it to GitHub, and nine months later a wafer came out of a fab. getting silicon with your name in it used to take a company. now it takes nine months.
his slot was 160 by 100 microns: about 1,000 logic gates, 8 inputs, 8 outputs, clocked past 50 MHz. more than 600 designs have already come back this way.
this is the open silicon stack. Google and SkyWater published a complete 130nm manufacturing process, DARPA funded the software that turns code into a fab-ready file, and all of it sits in public repositories.
turns out the whole flow fits in a git push:
- write the logic in Verilog, or drag gates around in a browser if you have never done this
- push to GitHub, an action runs synthesis, placement, routing and sign-off on the commit
- OpenROAD finishes place-and-route with no human in the loop, code to fab file inside 24 hours
- SKY130 carries the fab's real design rules, so passing the checks means it is manufacturable
- a few hundred designs share one wafer, which is the only reason a person can afford the masks
nobody puts this part in the thread: 130nm is roughly where the industry stood in 2001, and you wait six to nine months for silicon. this does not get you a GPU. it gets you a real object with your logic inside it.
bookmark this. the video is one of those designs opened layer by layer, and every rectangle in it exists in the file that was sent to the fab.
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🦌 4.5 RPG
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🦌 2.0 SPG
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