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wafer

[wey-fer] / ˈweɪ fər /


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The ingots are cut into wafers, polished and placed into special shipping containers that will carry them throughout the chip supply chain so their delicate properties aren’t ruined.

From The Wall Street Journal

Because HBM is resource-intensive—each unit needs roughly three times the semiconductor wafer capacity of standard memory—expanding supply reduces production of other memory types and drives prices higher across the sector.

From Barron's

Because HBM is resource-intensive—each unit needs roughly three times the semiconductor wafer capacity of standard memory—expanding supply reduces production of other memory types and drives prices higher across the sector.

From Barron's

Murphy said that Micron’s HBM yield is on track, referring to the amount of usable chips that come from a single wafer.

From MarketWatch

Compared with traditional DRAM, HBM is about three times more “silicon-intensive,” Weathers said in a Tuesday note, meaning it requires more of the wafer that chips are cut from.

From MarketWatch