wafer

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Often, smaller designs allow companies to produce more chips per wafer.

From MarketWatch • Mar. 16, 2026

The light carves the pattern into material on the wafer called photoresist.

From The Wall Street Journal • Feb. 27, 2026

Notable Primecap winners included Micron and semiconductor wafer fabricator KLA, while Equity Income owned Johnson & Johnson and Gilead Sciences.

From Barron's • Feb. 26, 2026

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 • Feb. 23, 2026

The wafer gave him a quiet place to think out his escape plan.

From "Gregor the Overlander" by Suzanne Collins