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Silicon ingots used in chip manufacturing aren’t that small: like a ~400mm diameter cylinder a metre or so long, and from memory several hundred kilos.
by dentalnanobot 9mo ago
Silicon ingots used in chip manufacturing aren’t that small: like a ~400mm diameter cylinder a metre or so long, and from memory several hundred kilos.
- HPsquared 9mo agoLooking up their website, it sounds like the company are making only the seed crystal in space, not the entire silicon boule: "Space Forge is using space-derived crystal seeds to grow ultra-high quality semiconductor substrates on Earth." https://www.spaceforge.com/ https://www.spaceforge.com/