GF180MCU Run 1 is Live!
Hey folks,
The wafer.space GF180MCU Run 1 campaign just went live on Crowd Supply!
For those who haven’t been following along: wafer.space brings the OSH Park model to silicon. $7k gets you 1,000 dies. That’s $7 per chip from GlobalFoundries’ GF180MCU process. Real production quantities, not just a handful of prototypes.
Efabless shutting down earlier this year left the open silicon community without a clear path to fabrication. I started wafer.space to rebuild that infrastructure with transparent pricing, predictable timelines, and no gatekeeping - and it’s even more affordable now!
The timeline
- November 28: Last day to buy a slot
- December 3: GDS submission deadline
- March 15, 2026: Target ship date for dies to customers
What you’re getting
20mm² on GF180MCU, replicated 1,000 times. This is the same mature 180nm mixed-signal process used for tons of production chips and the two Google open MPW runs. Five metal layers, MIM caps, poly resistors - all the basics you need for mixed-signal designs, MCUs, sensor interfaces, whatever.
Get involved
Jump on our Discord or Matrix if you need help with pad rings, DRC issues, or just want to see what others are building.
Subscribe for future updates including reference designs, highlights of projects being built on GF180MCU, interviews with community members, and technical deep-dives into how things work behind the scenes.
This is about enabling open, community-driven silicon manufacturing to grow and expand. Let’s make it happen.
-Tim ‘mithro’ Ansell
P.S. I was on The Teardown Sessions earlier today discussing wafer.space and open silicon - you can watch the recording at http://youtu.be/tEOmnN8IAjs.
