Efabless, a company which broke down the barriers of the computer chip creation process for enthusiasts and smaller players, has abruptly shut down. The firm was an essential enabler for a number of weird and wonderful custom chip developments we've featured on Tom's Hardware over the last year. However, Efabless has posted that it is facing "funding challenges," and we have no idea whether it will return. A worst-case scenario is that this is the end of the road for the firm - and the end of the Tiny Tapeout open source silicon projects that depended on it.
