2025 Year in Review
12 chips to 3 fabs, 8 workshops for 500 people, TT06 launched to space. A record year for Tiny Tapeout.
Tiny Tapeout Team
•8 January 2026
Thank you 2025!
What a year it’s been.
By The Numbers
In 2025, we sent 12 chips to 3 different fabs — that’s an average of once per month!
We ran 8 workshops for 500 people, helping students and young people design their first ever chips. And perhaps the most exciting moment: seeing TT06 launched into space on top of a blazing rocket, carrying hundreds of open source chip designs into Low Earth Orbit.
The Partners
None of this happens without an incredible ecosystem of partners and sponsors. Huge thanks to our fab partners — SkyWater Technology, IHP, ChipFoundry, and wafer.space — for manufacturing our chips.
To SwissChips and Frank Kagan Gurkaynak for supporting IHP development and tapeouts. To Tillitis AB, Wit, and Tim Ansell for sponsoring GF180MCU development and manufacturing.
To Texplained for awesome chip imaging and reverse engineering. To Patrick Haspel at Synopsys for sponsoring Tiny Tapeout workshops. And of course to our team doing all the hard work behind the scenes.
The Community
But most importantly: thank you to our community for coming up with the designs that fill these chips. Hundreds of makers, students, and engineers from around the world put their ideas into silicon. That’s the real story of 2025.
Here’s to an even more exciting 2026, filled with ambitious tapeouts and chip bringups!
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