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wafer

[wey-fer] / ˈweɪ fər /


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Rapidus will make one wafer at a time and process it right away, he said.

From The Wall Street Journal • Apr. 4, 2026

The light carves the pattern into material on the wafer called photoresist.

From The Wall Street Journal • Feb. 27, 2026

Because HBM is resource-intensive—each unit needs roughly three times the semiconductor wafer capacity of standard memory—expanding supply reduces production of other memory types and drives prices higher across the sector.

From Barron's • Feb. 23, 2026

Production capacity is unlikely to shift significantly until mid-2027, when Micron begins wafer output from a $50 billion expansion of its facilities in Idaho.

From Barron's • Feb. 23, 2026

“Wafer” was too secular, wafer was what one of Papa’s factories made —chocolate wafer, banana wafer, what people bought their children to give them a treat better than biscuits.

From "Purple Hibiscus" by Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie