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by dentalnanobot 165 days ago
Silicon ingots used in chip manufacturing aren’t that small: like a ~400mm diameter cylinder a metre or so long, and from memory several hundred kilos.
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Looking up their website, it sounds like the company are making only the seed crystal in space, not the entire silicon boule:

"Space Forge is using space-derived crystal seeds to grow ultra-high quality semiconductor substrates on Earth."

https://www.spaceforge.com/