Jim Keller's startup is building a factory to mass-produce small chip fabs

That's the one that Sam Zeloof is working on, "having lithographically microfabricated various chips in his garage as early as the age of 17"

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sam_Zeloof

The article mentions, but doesn't explicitly state, that they're going to be using electron beam lithography. Makes sense for their low volume and/or prototype fab goal, but I'm curious how well that would work for prototyping to fab at high volume with the likes of TSMC or Intel.

I would assume that re-targeting a design to a different fab's process would change enough about it that you might as well just do verification in simulation rather than sidetrack through Fab2.

I don't get it. How is Jim Keller running a brand new, hard tech startup while being CEO of Tenstorrent at the same time?

This is a great idea and hope it works out, especially on shoring chips back here in the states. That being said, their website is absolutely atrocious. One of the very few sites I got motion sickness from scrolling.

[1] https://fab2.com/

One of the most interesting technologies that is not about LLMs/AIs.

Is this an ASML competitor?

How could would ut be that your company or university or even at home has its own chip machine. Design your 5b transistor chip and bake and process it the same day. Doable I would say.

Great! Hopefully we can get 10 year behind technology from small fabs. There's so much you can do with a laptop from 2016