This is fascinating!

Ha, I just came here to post this! It's seriously cool, and the Navajo's history in the semiconductor industry is something I never knew about.

I would love a rug like that.

That's really cool that Intel had that made.

considers

You could probably do these automatically, given an automated loom -- one of our first forms of programmable industrial hardware -- and a chip layout description.

kagis

Here's an inexpensive computer-controlled loom for $10k-$15k:

https://www.camillavalleyfarm.com/weave/weavebird.htm

I assume that the same design could be scaled up with larger motors and parts, worst case, so that probably puts a ceiling on about what it'd cost to do this automatically.