Agenda
- How do we start contributing to the documentation?
- Explain how what we are doing can be useful to document- things like sourcing cheap second hand materials, Indian vendor pipelines for future Indian fabs, etc.
- How we can make it easier to replicate in countries where components are not available as freely as the USA or Europe
- Discuss and validate our plans for v1 of litho and spin coater.
- Take his inputs on the same
- Figure out other possible issues we can run into
- Whether we should remove projection optics
- Understand their pitch for funding, who funds them, how it works, etc.
Notes:
- Spam the discord.
- Highest value thing- raising money
- https://www.indiegogo.com/projects/imicro-q3-a-microscope-toward-the-optical-limit#/faq
- Ask on the discord
- Gitbook- make our own page for low cost stuff
- Spin Coater - Computer Fan is lowest level.
- Build a spin coater
- Pick up where CMU left off
- Polish it up, finish it, document it, contribute - good thing to show.
- UV flashlight
- Draw a pattern
- 3d print a pattern
- Expose it from far away
- See a pattern show up.
- Funding
- Apple, Intel and CMU - gave a lot of money
- Showing its part of bigger project
- International thing
- Unlocking things for other people
- Academia - Lower the barriers of entry
- Startups and Companies - Workforce training talent pipeline
- No class in any college makes semiconductors.
- Waterloo did a good job raising money.
- “If you aren’t gonna make an Applied Materials and ASML. Why?
- Lack of imagination
- Most complicated things humans have ever built
- ASML have gone down one path for the last 50 years - is it truly the best.
- Nobody has even taken a second to reevaluate.
- 90nm tapeouts still take 6 months
- Make a tool that can tapeout a simple design in one day along with an easy software
- A whole world that hasn’t been explored yet
- ASML can be beaten in the next 10 years - we have access to crazy technology they never did - old beaurocrats
Feel free to reach out - drop a message asap.