Our first COB (chip on board) chips are working! This has been a dream of mine for a few years, and it’s finally a reality! We’re used to seeing chips as little black boxes on a circuit board, but what’s inside? The first part of the journey started with Tamas creating this cool circuit board. Then Stuart visited an old friend’s wire bonding factory in the outskirts of Shenzhen. It’s nothing like you might imagine. While IC manufacturing itself requires a very strict level of cleanl...
