Apparently it IS possible to make IC’s at home, obviously nothing approaching 5nm transistor gates and therefore the equivalent of lego blocks to precision machined parts… but anyways:
(apologies for the YT link… I’d much rather link a service that isn’t totally enshittified) https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XrEC2LGGXn0
You can absolutely go on a tour inside a chip factory, just not in fucking TSMC
I mean, anything can look like a conspiracy to a layperson who pays zero attention to 60 years of incremental progress and focuses solely on the end result. It’s the same reason why people think vaccines are evil, or that 5G towers cause COVID.
I could probably build a computer from scratch, but it’s not gonna be a modern one with impossibly small microchips and bajillions of transistors. It’s gonna be a room-sized behemoth with only like 8bits of memory that takes 24 hours to compute 1+1.
Check out Ben Eater on YouTube.
I’m hoping the guy from Primitive Technology will eventually work his way up to that at some point.
You’d make Charles Babbage very smug with that kind of talk
Sounds like something an alien would say, which is just what you want me to think!
I think TSMC’s, a contract maker, market share is even 104.7%, not just around 61%. There are literally no other companies producing chips. Don’t be fooled by sources telling you about a Korean company Samsung or made up words like Intel or Nvidia.
Roswell happened in 1947, first microchips in the 60s, makes sense to me!!
The first point-contact transistor was invented in 1947. What a coincidence…
