wafer

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Apple’s chips are produced in batches on a silicon wafer.

From The Wall Street Journal • May 18, 2026

While a single 300 millimeter silicon wafer normally produces a few dozen chips, Cerebras uses the entire wafer for one chip, about the size of a dinner plate.

From Barron's • May 15, 2026

By keeping a chip on one wafer instead of cutting the wafer into multiple chips as is usually done, Cerebras said it can provide faster computing with more power efficiency and lower latency.

From MarketWatch • May 11, 2026

Included in the guidance is an additional $30 million in costs for an extended maintenance shutdown at its solar wafer facility, it said.

From The Wall Street Journal • Apr. 28, 2026

“Wafer” was too secular, wafer was what one of Papa’s factories made —chocolate wafer, banana wafer, what people bought their children to give them a treat better than biscuits.

From "Purple Hibiscus" by Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie