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From my partner who used to work at a fabless semiconductor:

The chipmaking process starts with code. Veralog I think is still being used. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Verilog

You get information from your fab (libraries about sizes of things so you can do layouts and simulation with very expensive software (https://www.synopsys.com) (fun exercise, try to get a price on their website...)

Often you send your design to the fab to get some samples to test back.

Wikipedia has a decent summary about how the chips are made

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Semiconductor_device_fabricati...



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