Again, you're new, so this is excusable.
Someone has bought a chip company before. All the machines, the materials, even training.
It failed miserably.
Unfortunately, most of the material referring to Red Ott disappeared when ChipTalk (the biggest chip collecting board before PCF) failed.
To make the story short, ASM was a successful company. The owner decided to retire, and sold the company who moved it to Vegas. He quickly learned that chip-making is an art, and the new owner (Ott) had more waste than success. People here paid thousands for chips and never got them, of got chips that were misshapen, odd colored, and on par with Chinese clay quality - but at substantial prices. The company folded.
There's a happy end to the story of course, but it involved bringing the chipmaker back out of retirement, moving the company out of Vegas, and changing the name. The point is, not everyone is even remotely capable of making a chip. It might be easier to find a quality wainwright than a quality chip maker.