David and Crew,

This is great - https://libresilicon.com/

What are the current equipment needs that Open Source Ecology can help with?We design and build industrial machines, and on our roadmap for 2022 is production of photovoltaics. How much overlap is there for equipment needs? 

Great diagrams at https://download.libresilicon.com/process/v1/process_hightech_steps.pdf - thanks for producing that. 

For some of the machines - Ion implanter • Plasma etcher • Sputter engine (Metal deposition) • Diffusion furnace • CVD/LPCVD machine • Exposure unit - are these the high cost items that constitute the majority of the $1B cost of  a fab? Or are there other major costs? My starting assumption is that we can reduce the cost of a $1B fab 100x with open source design and collaboration.

Are you aware of any viable open source versions of the above equipment?

Regarding smart-contract based rewarding of IP contributors in your Lightning Talk - does that mechanism have traction yet?

Thanks,
Marcin

On Tue, Dec 31, 2019 at 5:28 PM Luke Kenneth Casson Leighton <lkcl@lkcl.net> wrote:
(removing lots of unnecessary ccs, particularly the FOSDEM visitor list)

On 12/31/19, Marcin Jakubowski <marcin@opensourceecology.org> wrote:

> Luke, any thoughts on you stepping up and coordinating the maskless stepper
> module of this crazy evolution?

as we (privately) discussed yesterday, there are 4 levels of NDAs: HDL
tools, VLSI tools, Cell Libraries and Foudries.

i'm waaay overloaded by dealing with level 1 heavily and interacting
with people at level 2 and 3.

david and the libre-silicon team are dealing with level *4* heavily,
level 3 in a big way, and interacting with people at levels 2 and 1.
they're the best people for this.

l.


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