Sam Zeloof personal blog
Second IC
In 2018 I made the first lithographically fabricated integrated circuits in my garage fab. I was a senior in high school when I made the Z1 amplifier, and now I’m a senior in college so there are some long overdue improvements to the amateur silicon process. The Z1 had 6 transistors and was a great test chip to…
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- 406
- HN comments
- 200
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- 7 commenters
On Hacker News
| Submitted | Title on HN | Points | Comments |
|---|---|---|---|
| Aug 13, 2021 | Second IC by picture | 406 | 79 |
| Dec 7, 2025 | Z2 – Lithographically fabricated IC in a garage fab by embedding-shape | 357 | 84 |
| Apr 24, 2023 | Second IC – Homemade 1000 transistor array chip (2021) by danboarder | 271 | 37 |
Cited in comments
Linked from 7 Hacker News comments by 7 different people, from Aug 2021 to Oct 2023.
Most recent:
- reedlaw · Oct 23, 2023
- mikewarot · Oct 22, 2023
- jazzyjackson · Oct 17, 2023
- aj7 · Apr 28, 2023
- LeifCarrotson · Dec 10, 2021
- kayson · Nov 10, 2021
