wafer
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One former Treasury minister, Lord Bridges, told the Lords: "This is not a fiscal buffer; it is a fiscal wafer, so thin and fragile that it will snap at the slightest tap."
From BBC
Generally, smaller chips also translate to a higher yield per silicon wafer used in the lengthy chipmaking process, because more potential products can fit on each wafer used.
From MarketWatch
Generally, smaller chips also translate to a higher yield per silicon wafer used in the lengthy chipmaking process, because more potential products can fit on each wafer used.
From MarketWatch
The U.S. has banned the sale of tools known as extreme ultraviolet lithography machines, which inscribe silicon wafers with microscopic patterns filled by billions of transistors.
At Corning’s solar energy plant in a rural Michigan facility, workers turn chunky polysilicon rocks into perfect wafers, the building blocks of solar panels.
From Barron's
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