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I have a dumb question. Why isn't silicon sold in cubes instead of cylinders?
by exabrial 2y ago
I have a dumb question. Why isn't silicon sold in cubes instead of cylinders?
- bigmattystyles 2y agono matter how you orient a circle on a plane, it's the same
- amelius 2y agoThe silicon ingots have a rotating production process that results in cylinders, not bricks.
- exabrial 2y agofascinating, I figured it was something like that. maybe we should produce hexagonal, instead of square, chip designs
- kryptiskt 2y agoCrystalline silicon is produced with the Czochralski process (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Czochralski_method https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Czochralski_method), which produces a round ingot. So you'd have to cut away perfectly fine silicon to make something squarish.