Why are processor wafers round

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Why are chip foundries so expensive? Why is Ryzen expensive now? Why are GPU prices so high ? CPUs are made mostly of an element called silicon. Silicon is rather common in earths crust and is a semiconductor. This means that depending on what materials you add to it, it can conduct when a voltage is applied to it.

It is the 'switch that makes a CPU work. Modern CPUs literally contain millions transistors. The first stage in making a CPU is to make the wafers that they are built on. This process begins with the melting of polysilicon, together with minute amounts of electrically active elements such as arsenic, boron, phosphorous or antimony in a quartz crucible a container that won't melt at high temperatures.

Once the melt has reached the desired temperature, we lower a silicon seed crystal, or "seed" into the melt. Before the semiconductor wafer is cut into subparts, there is an opportunity to test the numerous dies that it carries using automated step testers that sequentially position test probes into microscopic terminal points on the die to energize, stimulate, and read relevant test points. This is a practical approach because a defective die will not be packaged into a finished component or integrated circuit only to be rejected at final testing.

Once a die is deemed defective, an ink mark blots out the die for easy visual segregation. The typical goal is that out of a million dies, less than six dies will be defective.

There are other factors to consider, so the die recovery rate is optimized. Why are CPU wafers square? Wouldn't that shape be more efficient? Logitech Z 6ch.

Old age should burn and rave at close of day;. I thought that they were round. The difference between genius and stupidity? Genius has limits. Intel P4 3.

The wafers are round, the dies what actually ends up in the packaging is square, so that they can fit as amny as possible as closely together on the wafer as possible, so that each cpu is as cheap to make as possible.