Comment by exabrial 3 days ago I have a dumb question. Why isn't silicon sold in cubes instead of cylinders? 4 comments exabrial Reply amelius 3 days ago The silicon ingots have a rotating production process that results in cylinders, not bricks. exabrial 2 days ago fascinating, I figured it was something like that. maybe we should produce hexagonal, instead of square, chip designs kryptiskt 2 days 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 3 days ago no matter how you orient a circle on a plane, it's the same
amelius 3 days ago The silicon ingots have a rotating production process that results in cylinders, not bricks. exabrial 2 days ago fascinating, I figured it was something like that. maybe we should produce hexagonal, instead of square, chip designs
exabrial 2 days ago fascinating, I figured it was something like that. maybe we should produce hexagonal, instead of square, chip designs
kryptiskt 2 days 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