Beholder
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In the event that Taiwan's chip foundry is destroyed to prevent the PRC from getting a technological monopoly, the price for microchips would skyrocket until most of us can't afford them. There are ways to create basic circuitboards by etching from laser printers, resin printing a stencil, or simply 3D printing wires directly with conductive filaments. These would however not have the density required for a processor. Another option would be to reprogram a Bluray burner into an etching machine, but creating functional transistors requires multiple layers with perfect overlap, and finding a material that can work as both source, gate and drain using a laser induced chemical reaction. Once that step is complete, you would obviously try to keep things simple without hyperthreading nor SIMD extensions, like an ARMv6 core without VFP.
Do you think that it's possible to create your own processor at home using today's consumer electronics as the tools, or is it still just a dream to create everything that we take for granted during a chrisis?
Do you think that it's possible to create your own processor at home using today's consumer electronics as the tools, or is it still just a dream to create everything that we take for granted during a chrisis?