[grenoire]

Yeah, I don't think people will be pulling pure silicon crystals at home any time soon.

[wrycoder]

That’s actually quite doable in a garage, assuming you are satisfied with, say, two inch wafers. (Currently, they are approaching 18 inches!)

It’s much easier to produce silicon ingots than to do wafer fab, because of the currently tiny line widths.

But, it would make more sense to simply buy wafers (or epitaxial wafers).

[Aeolun]

If they do, I imagine they’d leave it at that instead of going on to make a chip.