Chipforge opensource foundry [pdf]
I think the vision of creating an open set of processes and standard cells that every foundry could offer is a good one, but they aren&#x27;t particularly motivated to sign up.<p>I am not confident it will motivate the foundry that this will get any additional customers or will (as a process) be able to fill extra capacity.<p>That said I tried briefly to get some folks together to buy the old Atmel Fab building as a working fab post Microchip acquisition (as I recall it was a 1u fab) but people were talking 10&#x27;s of millions which wasn&#x27;t what I was thinking especially since I believe the plan of record is (or was) to just scrap it anyway.