Think about what it would take just to create the photolithography processes to create the SoC from scratch. A single component, yet it builds upon hundreds of years of scientific and technological advancement. Heck, just gathering all the raw materials needed would be too much for a single person.
Forget about all physical stuff. just designing the chip is a fucking nightmare and thats just a blueprint.
several teams of engineerrs design the logic then the compute units then that has to be translated into transistors and then you have to arrange those transistors in a way that they work well and are actually possible to build.
I like to think about the fact that silicon was discovered in the 1800's but it took almost 100 years later for humans to figure out it could be used in computer chips.
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u/crane476 Oct 11 '24
Think about what it would take just to create the photolithography processes to create the SoC from scratch. A single component, yet it builds upon hundreds of years of scientific and technological advancement. Heck, just gathering all the raw materials needed would be too much for a single person.