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Between 2025-08-31 11:59 p.m. and 2025-10-01 12:00 a.m.
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Tim 'mithro' Ansell 2025-09-04 9:56 p.m.
  • "It has never been easier to design your own silicon chip and now you can get 1,000 parts manufactured for just $7k USD."
  • "It has never been easier to design your own silicon chip and now we will manufactured 1,000 parts for just $7k USD."
    • "It has never been easier to design your own silicon chip and now wafer.space provides low cost manufacturing."
9:57 p.m.
It has never been easier to design your own integrated circuit. What’s missing is an affordable, straightforward path to real silicon that yields enough parts to build real products. For US$7,000, wafer.space delivers 1,000 raw dies so you can prototype, test, and ship.
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Tim 'mithro' Ansell 2025-09-05 7:19 p.m.
It has never been easier to design your own silicon chip — and now wafer.space provides low‑volume manufacturing that returns ~1,000 bare dies for $7,000 USD. --- ## Budget Silicon Manufacturing Thanks to open PDKs, advancing open‑source EDA, and programs like TinyTapeout, it’s never...
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Leo Moser (mole99) 2025-09-06 8:32 a.m.
One correction: GF180MCU (all caps) is the process, and gf180mcu is the open PDK In the table maybe mention that Tiny Tapeout also offers other processes such as IHP SG13CMOS and SKY130? How do you distribute full wafers if they contain proprietary designs? Or is that not a problem, since in the real world you could also simply decap a chip and reverse engineer it? Otherwise, looks good! And ~1,000 bare dies are a nice unique selling point.
8:38 a.m.
And one more thing: you mention top metal as if it were a separate layer, but in reality it is just a synonym for Metal5.
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IIRC it's also possible to mask out other designs from the water
8:39 a.m.
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8:39 a.m.
By paying some extra cost
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Leo Moser (mole99)
One correction: GF180MCU (all caps) is the process, and gf180mcu is the open PDK In the table maybe mention that Tiny Tapeout also offers other processes such as IHP SG13CMOS and SKY130? How do you distribute full wafers if they contain proprietary designs? Or is that not a problem, since in the real world you could also simply decap a chip and reverse engineer it? Otherwise, looks good! And ~1,000 bare dies are a nice unique selling point.
Tim 'mithro' Ansell 2025-09-07 5:11 p.m.
Basically, when people submit their designs they give me a license which allows me to share the wafers.
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Tim 'mithro' Ansell 2025-09-10 11:19 p.m.
I'd appreciate a copy-edit / suggestions on this notification email @ https://docs.google.com/document/d/1affLsGwvacdDOMPoBHibUlYm_ahU9vR2SBFj8qHtvH8/edit?tab=t.0
Hello! I'm happy to announce that the first GF180MCU open silicon run from wafer.space is now available for purchase through CrowdSupply (see https://buy.wafer.space)! For $7,000 USD you get 1,000 bare die of ~20mm² GF180MCU open source silicon. There is also an option of purchasing chip-on-bo...
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Tim 'mithro' Ansell 2025-09-30 1:11 a.m.
Fancy a mid-scale semiconductor production run, but don't have a few million dollars to spare? That's exactly who wafer.space is targeting.
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