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