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The CEO building the 'Ikea of factories' wants to democratize semiconductor production

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Originally published by Business Insider.

By Lakshmi Varanasi on June 29, 2025

  • New York-based Nanotronics builds compact, modular semiconductor plants called "Cubefabs."
  • Its goal is to improve chip-making to be more time and cost-efficient, enabling factories to run with fewer workers.
  • "The vision is that any region — whether in the Global South or the United States — should be able to produce what it needs locally," CEO Matthew Putman told BI.

In his 1986 book "Engines of Creation," engineer K. Eric Drexler — often called the godfather of nanotechnology — made a prediction.

"The coming era of molecular machines will mean the end of many limits: the limit of scarcity, the limit of slow development, the limit of ignorance enforced by the lack of tools," he wrote.

Reading those words a few years later, when he was 16, Matthew Putman started thinking...

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