Man makes silicon chips in his garage fab

[Richard_Kirk]

@Yri

one of my housemates has an old chipfab thing in storage somewhere, or pieces of it, but his plan is certainly not to run it at home but to put it back together and sell it. Apparently there’s quite a market for older machines in good condition, and building/rebuilding such machines is what he does at work - he’s the guy other engineers call in when they can’t figure out what’s wrong and/or how to fix it.

Yep. If you have fab facility about the 1 micron mark, these are good for making little mechanical MEMS things. I wanted my company at the time to get one in the nineties. It would have been about half a million at the time, if we could have found one. That’s not doing it yourself, but it is also fun.