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wafer

[wey-fer] / ˈweɪ fər /


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Because photonic chips can be manufactured at wafer scale using methods similar to those employed for computer chips, more than 1,000 laser cavities could potentially be produced simultaneously.

From Science Daily • Jun. 4, 2026

Photonic chips manipulate light using microscopic structures called waveguides that are etched into a wafer.

From Science Daily • Jun. 4, 2026

The company has pioneered wafer-scale chips, meaning a chip that takes up the entire silicon wafer that is normally cut up into many smaller processors.

From The Wall Street Journal • May 15, 2026

Cerebras is focused on supporting inference workloads, and unlike Nvidia and other AI-chip makers, its approach to chip-making involves using an entire wafer as one chip.

From MarketWatch • May 11, 2026

Before she can chuck a vanilla wafer at me.

From "The Truth as Told by Mason Buttle" by Leslie Connor




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