For the first time, open silicon wasn’t just a niche experiment in 2025 - it was a real ecosystem spanning three fabs and thousands of designs. And then one company collapsed and hundreds of chips effectively disappeared overnight.
Efabless going out of business at the end of February hit the community like a hammer. They weren’t just an MPW...
Cool!
First I've heard about the mini-MosBius. That's neat!
Looking forward to 2026 as well!!
I also subscribed to your newsletter and look forward to reading those!
Keep up the great work Matt!
I know this is a little different than the steps for GF180MCU, but this asianometry video shows all the steps in making 45nm wafers. (There are a lot of steps, like a whole lot!)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zUgy29h0alM
"die sorter" is, of course, German for "the sorter"
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I wrote an article about the Wafer.Space GF180MCU Run 1 for the Japanese technology magazine I/O( https://www.kohgakusha.co.jp/io/ , The release date is the 18/Jan, Japan Only).
I hope to see more submissions from Japan next time.
Just watched another great presentation from @bunnie about his new chip/architectures.
This looks amazing Bunnie, can't wait to see more!
This also led me to listen to a 14yr old the-amp-hour-84-bunnies-bibelot-bonification podcast where he made a prediction about the future.
He predicted there would not be much architectural improvements, because moore's law was moving so fast, but eventually when that slowed down we would start to see some novel and new approaches.
Seems it's coming true in the best way!! @bunnie did you think you'd be the hero you were looking for?
Anyways, great stuff! Thank you for everything you're doing!
Hah! well I've been champing at the bit for years to do something interesting with chips again...but my hope is that all the good people here will soon be putting out cool stuff I couldn't have thought up in my wildest dreams.
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Hah! well I've been champing at the bit for years to do something interesting with chips again...but my hope is that all the good people here will soon be putting out cool stuff I couldn't have thought up in my wildest dreams.
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Anyways, great stuff! Thank you for everything you're doing!
