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rickman <gnuarm@gmail.com> writes:
> ASICs are not for small runs but I think there is one company that
> does chip batching not so different from they way OSHPARK does for
> PCBs.

There are several of those, MOSIS being the best known.  

http://cmp.imag.fr/technologies/price-list.html

shows small chips in old processes (0.35u) almost in hobbyist range,
though I'm not sure what you can do with it that you couldn't also do
at better performance with a modern FPGA.