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To: FarCenter

300mm (30 cm or 11 inch transistors / microprocessors) are, well, pretty much late 1940s / early 1950s technology, no?


3 posted on 07/14/2022 11:20:41 AM PDT by lefty-lie-spy (Stay Metal)
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To: lefty-lie-spy

300mm refers to the size of the silicon wafer on which the chips will be created. A 300mm wafer will yield 640 ‘dies’ or individual chips per wafer.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wafer_(electronics)


10 posted on 07/14/2022 11:28:13 AM PDT by Spktyr (Overwhelmingly superior firepower and the willingness to use it is the only proven peace solution.)
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To: lefty-lie-spy; BiteYourSelf; sasquatch
After asking Google, 300 mm is the diameter of the silicon wafer used to make the chips. The number of chips that can be made from a 300 mm diameter wafer depends on the size of the individual chip dies.


12 posted on 07/14/2022 11:31:45 AM PDT by Yo-Yo (Is the /Sarc tag really necessary? Pray for President Biden: Psalm 109:8)
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To: lefty-lie-spy

Silicon wafers don’t show up until 1960....


13 posted on 07/14/2022 11:33:08 AM PDT by Spktyr (Overwhelmingly superior firepower and the willingness to use it is the only proven peace solution.)
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