etching

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Chip makers use it to maintain stable temperatures while etching silicon wafers into advanced semiconductors.

From The Wall Street Journal • Mar. 31, 2026

The venture would also presumably need equipment for etching and deposition, which are manufacturing and packaging processes.

From MarketWatch • Mar. 23, 2026

“By no means are we etching anything in stone, but putting a framework out there to guide the community,” said Jerry Chow, IBM’s chief technology officer of quantum-centric computing.

From Barron's • Mar. 12, 2026

"Fabrication of modern devices takes hundreds, if not thousands, of steps of chemical etching and deposition and heating, and then every single step does something to your structure," Karapetyan said.

From Science Daily • Mar. 5, 2026

Then my fingers felt something that my eyes missed: a maze of grooves etching the surface of the bars.

From "The Name of the Wind" by Patrick Rothfuss