Comment by dentalnanobot
3 days ago
Silicon ingots used in chip manufacturing aren’t that small: like a ~400mm diameter cylinder a metre or so long, and from memory several hundred kilos.
3 days ago
Silicon ingots used in chip manufacturing aren’t that small: like a ~400mm diameter cylinder a metre or so long, and from memory several hundred kilos.
Looking up their website, it sounds like the company are making only the seed crystal in space, not the entire silicon boule:
"Space Forge is using space-derived crystal seeds to grow ultra-high quality semiconductor substrates on Earth."
https://www.spaceforge.com/