Elon Musk says building his own 'TeraFab' chip fab may be the only answer

10 hours ago (tomshardware.com)

> “Building advanced chip manufacturing is extremely hard,” Jensen Huang, chief executive of Nvidia, said at a TSMC event on Thursday.

Perhaps. But if TSMC, Samsung, Intel, GlobalFoundries, SK Hynix, SMIC, and UMC can all do it, it isn't THAT esoteric.

  • Lol. I assume you’re being facetious. But those companies have all been at it for decades.

    • Are any of them making compostable sustainable chips out of graphene or carbon nanotubes yet though?

      They all compete for Silicon (SiO2) and P and B and Copper (Cu) and Neon (Ne), and PFAS for photoresist masks.

      Graphene can be made from CO2 and unsorted plastics, though graphene is typically manufactured from imported graphite FWIU.

      Traditional nanolithography works on silicon carbide.

      FET nano transistors can be patterned into graphene and other forms of carbon.

      Graphene oxide and Carbon epoxide are probably better substrates than doped Silicon.

      The work functions of graphene oxide and carbon nanotubes are different enough for reduced graphene oxide to be the substrate for carbon-based integrated electronic, phononic, and photonic computing chips.

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    • Supposedly, Taiwan based TSMC employees are always on call, and they'll get out of bed during the night to answer the call and go to work. I read that a while back... but it makes sense. Extreme work ethic and extreme competence.