Curious about how chips are made?
I will be demoing at Socratica's Spring 2026 End of Term Showcase this Wednesday, July 29, from 6:00–9:00 PM at THEMUSEUM.
See you there!
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Something we’ve wanted to do for a long time is finally happening...
An online Tiny Tapeout workshop across two days, for anyone, anywhere!
Date and details coming soon 👀
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Hiring founding software and firmware engineers for my company.
$100 K-$250 K USD + 1-3% equity.
Waterloo / SF, hybrid.
Founding Software Eng: simantic.dev/apply/1
Founding Firmware Eng: simantic.dev/apply/2
A parable tells us blind men misread an elephant by only touching one part. I’m going to prove it wrong!
This summer, I’m building an open-source ASIC for an auto-aligner. Sweeping just 3 points, my ASIC reads and locks into its optimal point.
Stay tuned!
github.com/llhtimlam/Probton
Excited to build this for the @SSCSociety PICO Open-Source Chipathon
sscs.ieee.org/technical-comm…
#Chipathon #OpenSourceSilicon
Want to see distributed computing explained via Pong?
Inspired by TinyTPU and TinyTapeout workshop at FOSSi, I wrote a paper under a week pairs this demo with a proposed next-gen optical I/O chip architecture & a roadmap to prototype it.
Read it on GitHub: github.com/llhtimlam/tt_um_l…
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Hey @PalmerLuckey want to know where the real engineers in North America are?
Waterloo, Canada.
In the @akatoshouse community, there’s a guy who built a transformers model from scratch just by reading the paper. It took over a year and he literally rediscovered the gradient vanishing problem from first principles, amongst other things
There’s another guy, a chemical engineer with zero background in hardware or chip design, who learned to code then meticulously researched and wrote a paper on building a next-gen TSMC from scratch (releasing Tuesday)
And a 3rd guy who is designing and engineering autonomous construction fleets from our basement
People in this city understand how to make real things. Come take a look someday 🫡
.@PalmerLuckey: American companies don't actually have engineers anymore.
"American companies have been hollowed out."
"We're not teaching engineers how to be engineers anymore."
"We're not teaching designers how to actually design things to be manufactured."
"We're teaching them how to be high-level design shops that put together a design package, that gets sent to the real engineers in China—and they actually figure out how to do the work."
"People are turning into architecture astronauts."
"They pick components, and they put them in a nominal layout."
"But the real work of—how am I actually going to put this together? How am I going to build a manufacturing line to make this? How am I going to need to figure out how to do the one, two, three, four, five different revisions of this board to pass radio emissions and interference standards? That's all done in China. So they are the real engineers."
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