Part of the chip

Wafer

The polished silicon disc the chips are built on.

The step: Silicon Wafer (Ingot to Polished/Epi) · Wafer

Polysilicon is melted and pulled into a single-crystal ingot, sliced, and polished to atomic flatness; optional epitaxial layer. No separate merchant ingot industry exists.

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The chip, with the wafer lit

Who makes it, by country10 on the index

  1. China3
  2. Japan2
  3. Taiwan2
  4. Finland1
  5. Germany1
  6. South Korea1

By result

  • Clear4
  • Caution2
  • Flagged0
  • Blocked4
  • Not screened0

Results under CHIPS and export controls. What each result means

Where they are

Makers on the index

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