Sam Zeloof's Garage Fab - DIY

Overview

Sam Zeloof is a self-taught engineer who built a functioning semiconductor lab in his family's New Jersey garage from refurbished and homebuilt equipment. In 2018 he fabricated the Z1, a homemade integrated circuit with roughly 1,200 transistors, and has since produced further chips at feature sizes measured in microns, demonstrating small-scale lithography and doping as a hobbyist and educational project. Key facility details include: The facility is situated at Garage, Flemington, New Jersey, USA. It focuses on R&D, Logic / Foundry and 10000, 20000 process nodes on 25mm wafers. This site represents an estimated investment of $1e-05B and a production capacity of 1 wafers per month. Production at this facility commenced in 2017.