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Russia Says It's Assembled a Lithography Machine, Will Make 350nm Chips Soon (www.extremetech.com)
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[–] [email protected] 19 points 7 months ago* (last edited 7 months ago)

Yeah, those old fabs are still useful. Here's what Microchip Technology Inc runs:

https://ww1.microchip.com/downloads/en/DeviceDoc/00004075.pdf

See page 6.Their fab in Lawrence, MA only goes down to 1000nm. Their other locations go down to 250 or 110nm. IIRC, some of that is the auto industry refusing to port things off of old chips, but the point is that you can do a lot of useful stuff with horribly outdated fabs.