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Any chance of seeing these talented folks start new Chip design shops.

The person who can create a fab for less than a few million, while offering competing performance will be very rich.

Every bigger country will want some capacity to build chips.

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Everything competitive is locked up in patents, but maybe with the chip shortage there's room for more competition for existing chips. Question is: can they get seed funding?

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https://www.wired.com/story/22-year-old-builds-chips-parents...

It's possible to build something with next to no money, and I can't imagine it impractical to see some senior engineers gathering together and making a good funding pitch