I just watched a Jim Keller interview (from about 6 months ago) where described co-founding Atomic Semi with Sam Zeloof -- the individual who "constructed a home microchip fabrication facility in his parents' garage"[in 2018, at age 17], and actually fabbed some chips with (old) tech. (I assume most people know who Jim Keller is here).
Jim describes* Atomic Semi as a company that is going to make fabrication equipment "like ASML" but on a much smaller scale. (Paraphrasing) - "Instead of making fab equipment for 300mm wafers and moving 50kg around at 100+mph, we'll create fab equipment to make/"print" chips that are much smaller than a traditional wafer". He talked about in the interview that if they were able to "print" fast enough, they might be able to make this for useful than even more than just prototyping.
This seems like an interesting angle on chip fabrication. I couldn't find any discussion or articles about Atomic Semi on Semiwiki so I was curious if people had heard of it, or what they thought. Their website is pretty basic, but they do at least seem to be hiring.
*Atomic Semi part of interview:
About Jim Keller: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jim_Keller_(engineer)
Jim describes* Atomic Semi as a company that is going to make fabrication equipment "like ASML" but on a much smaller scale. (Paraphrasing) - "Instead of making fab equipment for 300mm wafers and moving 50kg around at 100+mph, we'll create fab equipment to make/"print" chips that are much smaller than a traditional wafer". He talked about in the interview that if they were able to "print" fast enough, they might be able to make this for useful than even more than just prototyping.
This seems like an interesting angle on chip fabrication. I couldn't find any discussion or articles about Atomic Semi on Semiwiki so I was curious if people had heard of it, or what they thought. Their website is pretty basic, but they do at least seem to be hiring.
*Atomic Semi part of interview:
