Comment by exabrial 1 year ago I have a dumb question. Why isn't silicon sold in cubes instead of cylinders? 4 comments exabrial Reply amelius 1 year ago The silicon ingots have a rotating production process that results in cylinders, not bricks. exabrial 1 year ago fascinating, I figured it was something like that. maybe we should produce hexagonal, instead of square, chip designs kryptiskt 1 year ago 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 1 year ago no matter how you orient a circle on a plane, it's the same
amelius 1 year ago The silicon ingots have a rotating production process that results in cylinders, not bricks. exabrial 1 year ago fascinating, I figured it was something like that. maybe we should produce hexagonal, instead of square, chip designs
exabrial 1 year ago fascinating, I figured it was something like that. maybe we should produce hexagonal, instead of square, chip designs
kryptiskt 1 year ago 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.
The silicon ingots have a rotating production process that results in cylinders, not bricks.
fascinating, I figured it was something like that. maybe we should produce hexagonal, instead of square, chip designs
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.
no matter how you orient a circle on a plane, it's the same