I do but my days in the fab taught me that you do NOT want people to do this, considering the extremely dangerous chemicals involved. People have died changing EMPTY tanks of phosphine gas used for doping… and HF acid used for etch is another nightmare entirely.
I used to graduate at an institute having physicists as well as chemists, I gues it was no coincidence that only physicists operated with HF, one chemist told me that no chemist in their right mind would touch it
This is the issue I have with people saying that solar power is "clean and eco friendly".
It sure is, if you ignore the fact that you have to have a factory to make it where one of the *nicest* things around is the fucking hydrofluoric acid, and most of the rest will kill you instantly in trace amounts.
It is only half as bad as working in the places that make tbose chemicals for use in clean rooms. Swaping out "empty" phosphine tanks is bad, but filling and shipping hundreds of full tanks is worse.
Did anyone forget that core memory is woven ? With knitting, beads and everything ?
https://dl.acm.org/doi/10.1145/3173574.3174105
Did anyone ever use different coloured ferrites to make cool patterns? I'd have thought that'd be a no-brainer, Navajo blanket core memory!
Admit it, deep down, our inner engeering child also wants to build a semiconductor clean room ;)
I do but my days in the fab taught me that you do NOT want people to do this, considering the extremely dangerous chemicals involved. People have died changing EMPTY tanks of phosphine gas used for doping… and HF acid used for etch is another nightmare entirely.
I used to graduate at an institute having physicists as well as chemists, I gues it was no coincidence that only physicists operated with HF, one chemist told me that no chemist in their right mind would touch it
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Oh, my dream clean room is of course fully robot automated and I can watch through a big (safety) window.
Knowing that really helps you understand just how valuable semiconductors are as a product.
In my journey to make pcb’s at home I decided to stop once I almost gassed myself and shifted instead to buying gpus
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Honest question, is there a way to run the entire process acid-free?
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This is the issue I have with people saying that solar power is "clean and eco friendly".
It sure is, if you ignore the fact that you have to have a factory to make it where one of the *nicest* things around is the fucking hydrofluoric acid, and most of the rest will kill you instantly in trace amounts.
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It is only half as bad as working in the places that make tbose chemicals for use in clean rooms. Swaping out "empty" phosphine tanks is bad, but filling and shipping hundreds of full tanks is worse.
While that would be cool, something like the 7400 series, is already pretty close to scratching that itch. And a lot less dangerous.
What a time to be alive.
I only have raw RAM, pastured RAM is wrong.
I get my DRAM needs at the RAM ranch.
You mean at the RAMch? I'll see myself out now
>I get my DRAM needs at the RAM ranch.
18GB at a time
I buy it from the local Amish.
I put myself in the print-it-yourself-at-home group.