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wafer

[wey-fer] / ˈweɪ fər /


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That appeared to be reflected in SMIC’s wafer revenue from smartphones, which made up 25.2% of total quarterly revenue, up from 18.9% in the first quarter.

From The Wall Street Journal Aug. 13, 2026

As a result, CPUs could be as significant as AI accelerators, including both GPUs and ASICs, in terms of wafer revenue contribution in 2027.

From The Wall Street Journal Aug. 11, 2026

The useful disclosures sit lower down, in terms of how much of each company’s wafer supply is grown in-house and how much comes from China.

From MarketWatch Aug. 7, 2026

What will is how much of each company’s wafer supply runs through China, which is what the disclosures below reveal.

From MarketWatch Aug. 7, 2026

Before she can chuck a vanilla wafer at me.

From "The Truth as Told by Mason Buttle" by Leslie Connor

They adapt the material to a lithography-based manufacturing method suitable for making devices on wafers.

From Science Daily Aug. 17, 2026

Caltech researchers have found a way to move light across silicon wafers with exceptionally little signal loss, reaching levels at visible wavelengths that approach those of optical fiber.

From Science Daily Aug. 17, 2026

Along with other companies, it committed to buy chip wafers from Taiwan Semiconductor Manufacturing’s new facility in Arizona, expected to cost more than $200 billion.

From The Wall Street Journal Aug. 13, 2026

DUV machines project microscopic circuit patterns onto silicon wafers that are then etched and processed into memory and mature chips.

From MarketWatch Jul. 28, 2026

On the table next to the plate of wafers was a creepy-looking doll with peach-colored skin and a head of big curly black hair.

From "The First Rule of Punk" by Celia C. Pérez




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