How a 19‑Year‑Old Built a 1200‑Transistor CPU in His Garage

Sam Zeloof, a teenage electronics hobbyist, spent three years hand‑crafting a 1200‑transistor CPU (the Z2) in his garage using homemade equipment and a 10 µm polysilicon gate process, demonstrating that complex chip design can be pursued outside of a clean‑room environment.

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How a 19‑Year‑Old Built a 1200‑Transistor CPU in His Garage