Comment on Would it be possible to retool old transistors/electronics by filling in the increasingly larger gaps created by Moore's Law?

SanderZeldenthuis@nord.pub ⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago

• A_be_seedy@beehaw.org ⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago

  Maybe. It’s been done to a degree, 1971, 4 years ago.

  wired.com/…/22-year-old-builds-chips-parents-gara…

  Wasn’t sure how much the hobby evolved since then. I asked hobbyist level as the lowest barrier to entry, but even wondering if something at a lighter scale than Intel could repurpose old CPUs or other ICs.

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  • SanderZeldenthuis@nord.pub ⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago

    Unless I’m misunderstanding something, the linked Wired article is about a person designing and making very primitive new chips from scratch, not recycling and modding existing CPUs.

    While it is very impressive and surely a great way to learn, its not cost effective at all for what results.

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