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'Just imagine what could get done' — How this US startup is building a 'cheap' fab-in-a-box to do for microchips what IBM did for PCs

InchFab portable semiconductor manufacturing plant.
  • Small wafer fabs could dramatically reduce semiconductor manufacturing startup costs worldwide
  • Compact chip factories may accelerate semiconductor workforce training across developing industries
  • InchFab believes utilization matters more than wafer size in semiconductor economics

The semiconductor industry traditionally depends upon gigantic fabrication plants costing billions of dollars and requiring years before meaningful chip production even begins.

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