The 2025 Free Silicon Conference is over. Slides are online, videos will follow.

Highlights:
* China to open a 55nm PDK in weeks
* ChipsJU DET call is open
* DE:SIGN + Taiwan partnership (submit pre-proposals by 1 October)
* Progress on parasitic extraction
* Former CTO of Studio (Peter Thoma) spoke at FSiC
* ElemRV: Open-source microcontroller taped in IHP130
* Visualization of chips in action: znah.net/tt09/

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Xueyan Zhao announced that is expected to open a 55nm PDK in July 2025:

* ICSprout is jointly established by Zhejiang Provincial Government and Zhejiang University
* It has 12-inch CMOS 180/55nm process lines
* First test chip on ICSprout 55nm Open PDK taped-out in June 15 2025
* Price range: 1400$ - 5600$/mm2

For more information see slide 16 of wiki.f-si.org/index.php?title=

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