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by alted
1877 days ago
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Nope. Since most manufacturing steps are performed on an entire silicon wafer at once, the cost per chip is cheaper if there are more chips on each wafer. As a result, wafers (for both basic and advanced chips) are filled with rectangular chips packed as tightly as possible (and when designing chips, prices are often talked about in units of "price per area of silicon"). Images from a web search for "semiconductor wafer dicing" illustrate this [1]. [1] https://duckduckgo.com/?t=ffab&q=semiconductor+wafer+dicing&... |
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