A New Homemade Z2 Chip Came From the Mind of a 22-Year-Old Undergrad

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A New Homemade Z2 Chip Came From the Mind of a 22-Year-Old Undergrad
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Straight out of his parents' garage.

Before Zeloof's successful Z2, there was his first chip: a much smaller one he had built as a high school senior back in 2018.

Zeloof half-jokingly claims that he’s making faster progress than the semiconductor industry did in its early days. His second chips growth rate outpacing Moore’s law, the rule of thumb coined by an Intel cofounder that says the number of transistors on a chip doubles roughly every two years, by having 200 times as many transistors as his first. While the Z2 chip has far more transistors than its predecessors, but it comes with a few challenges.

The chip-making capabilities of Sam Zeloof might be short compared to commercial semiconductor foundries, still, he may lead the way of homemade integrated circuits.towards a massive new semiconductor plant in Ohio, where it will employ 10,000 workers.

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