Applied Materials (etc.) build the making-machines anyway.
As for "how can you have 1000 people involved", well, a modern chip can have a billion transistors on it. The MOSTek 6502 design team was nine people, although maybe you could argue that only five of them were design engineers. The chip contained about 3500 transistors, about 700 per design engineer.
If a modern design team applied the same amount of attention per transistor as the 6502 team, it would need to contain 1.3 million people.
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Applied Materials (etc.) build the making-machines anyway.
As for "how can you have 1000 people involved", well, a modern chip can have a billion transistors on it. The MOSTek 6502 design team was nine people, although maybe you could argue that only five of them were design engineers. The chip contained about 3500 transistors, about 700 per design engineer.
If a modern design team applied the same amount of attention per transistor as the 6502 team, it would need to contain 1.3 million people.