On Wed, Jul 29, 2015 at 6:06 PM, Steve Kinney <admin@pilobilus.net> wrote:
I do see problems with scaling DYI chip projects up to commercial production numbers, and down in scale to achieve fast, high capacity performance.
It's not DIY. It's many similarly thinking Y's coming together to DI. Eventually you'll reach beyond any given initial fledgling "hobby class" goalposts. Nothing unusual or unachievable there. Since it's all been done before, how long to rebuild trustable compute and manufacturing from trustable discretes like relays, punchtape, and hand tools to 100nm? 5y? 10y?
That's why I am much more interested in the prospects of a manufacturing process built for radical transparency, using "commercial best practice" technology
All part of it.
at conventional production facilities.
Except this, unless you're demonstrating a way to convince these untrustable closed entities to open up their entire process and production line for your inspection pursuant to each and every audited run you want to put through it. If you're not, then you can't be certain that what you put in is what you get out.
IMO the same kind of radical transparency should apply to all industrial processes that pose large potential hazards to public health & safety, i.e. nuclear power stations, transgenic agriculture, etc.
You should be able to read the as-built blueprints of all of these things online, access all areas of plants for independant inspection, raise enforceable design and safety flags, etc.