Too many spy movies on the dish and too many years of watching X Files.   :-)

What's it take to set up a small chip foundry?
I think there have been threads on the PIClist about the government chips that self destruct if
you penetrate the package the wafer is in.

A commercial chip plant is pretty huge but if you didn't care about quantity or speed how small could you make it?
Aren't there universities where students make their own chips?
Can you make chips in a few thousand square foot warehouse?



http://www.utwatch.org/oldnews/aas_sematech_6_15_03.html

Bid to keep Sematech invokes national security

Proposal for government foundry shows extent of Austin effort to head off a move to New York
By Chuck Lindell
AMERICAN-STATESMAN STAFF
Sunday, June 15, 2003

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