A startup reorganizes itself as a fab that builds fabs

Claim

Sam Zeloof renamed Atomic Semi to Fab2, a fab fab spanning an Austin chip fab, a Lockhart fab fab and a San Francisco garage, all wired to a browser design tool, while ETH Zurich floated a single trapped ion to map chip fields in three dimensions down to 10 nanovolts per meter.

Reported metric: 10 nV/m

Reporting date: 2026-07-05 (not necessarily the event date)

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