Jim Keller-backed semiconductor startup Atomic Semi rebrands to Fab2 with plans to build its own chip manufacturing equipment

Wake up babe the American Von Neumann probe company is being brother in Texas on America's 250th

@bojan_ai Small things coming

@jimkxa @fab2 Jim, you're a pretty intelligent guy. What's the actual value that makes this more than a fun side hustle? Is anyone going to qualify a fab2 tool? Is fab2 going to bare si > bump or wire pad a chip?

I mean it is cool in the 'if I won lottery' or grad school sense but eh?

@szeloof rebrands usually mean the mission outgrew the old name, worth watching what Fab2 actually ships in the next year more than the name change itself

@lasserith @fab2 Way past that

@szeloof awesome. too much animation on the home page though

@szeloof lfg

I would give a kidney to see inside. Lmk if you know a good surgeon.

EUV is the wrong shape solution for low Kolmogorov complexity chips (which is the overwhelming trend with mixed systolic arrays and FPGAs).

Being able to fabricate a process that makes use of e-beam splitters, NIL and DSA could drive down costs massively on these kinds of devices

@dankuntz Work at the intersection of prezi, Minecraft and factorio

@szeloof Congratulations!!

@szeloof @jwt0625 fab fab, so fab

@szeloof But where is fab1?

@jimkxa @fab2 Care to elaborate? Defect reduction and reliability are nontrivial at small volume. I can see a niche for process with neither but it seems pretty small (academic/startup POC). Maybe that's my bias...

@szeloof Is this site literally a prezi

@szeloof 😭 brooo

@szeloof cool

@wholemars @szeloof Dude wtf. This is like 15 year old me discovering how to animate in Flash.

@rayefull Fab2

@szeloof But why?

@szeloof yay hell yeah