> Aren't there universities where students make
> their own chips?

I took two IC design courses within the last year at
the University of Calgary (Alberta, Canada) and we
were told that all Canadian universities get chips
fabricated through CMC, the Canadian Microelectronics
Corporation (some US universities may have in-house
facilities... I don't know). It's rare for an
undergrad chip to be produced, but one prof had us
design our projects with a 2 micron process because he
thought the University could afford to have one
project fabbed. He himself was doing research on MEMS
applied to biological systems and I think he said he
was doing 2 micron as well because it was the
cheapest... but at any rate, everything up here gets
shipped off.




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