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2026-08-13
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Fabrication & Packaging
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How Chips Are Made — From Wafer to Yield
Every GPU and phone processor starts as sand and passes through hundreds of printing steps. From the basic moves — lithography, etching, ion implantation — to the brute force of EUV and the yield math that makes big dies exponentially expensive, explained from zero.