Miles makes vintage semiconductors in modern research settings. He previously worked out of Columbia's cleanroom, where he built functioning NMOS transistors with an eight-hour start-to-finish process. At Astera, he is creating a service where a customer sends in a simple chip design, and for a couple hundred dollars gets their own custom chips mailed back within days, minimum order of one. The first process will be similar to that of the late '70s and early '80s, with transistors a couple microns in size. Customers might be students taping out their first chip or researchers interested in substrates with ready made circuits, not people who need cutting-edge speed. Miles plans to livestream lab work, document process modules, open-source hardware, and publish full process flows. In his free time, Miles works through his ever-elongating list of urban and rural adventures with his friends.