[exabrial]

I have a dumb question. Why isn't silicon sold in cubes instead of cylinders?

[amelius]

The silicon ingots have a rotating production process that results in cylinders, not bricks.

[exabrial]

fascinating, I figured it was something like that. maybe we should produce hexagonal, instead of square, chip designs

[kryptiskt]

Crystalline silicon is produced with the Czochralski process (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Czochralski_method), which produces a round ingot. So you'd have to cut away perfectly fine silicon to make something squarish.

[bigmattystyles]

no matter how you orient a circle on a plane, it's the same