[DiogenesLamp]

I was making chips at National Sermiconductor, Santa Clara before Intel was a company. I stopped making chips the last day of 1994, Texas Instruments. For years Intel promoted that Noyce invented the integrated circuit when all he had was some suspicious notes in his engineering book while Kilby had a working device.

I would be interested in picking your brain. Lately I have been contemplating what would be required to set up some sort of amateur transistor/chip making effort.

My thinking is that if we ever suffer from an EMP device, or if we have a financial collapse and/or social upheaval, the ability to make relatively simple I.C.s might be a very useful ability to have.

Do you suppose such a thing could be done by an amateur?

[DuncanWaring]

No.

[blam]

"Do you suppose such a thing could be done by an amateur? "

No.