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How Silicon Wafers are made

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hey I see an old post of mine... why didn't I ask why they can't just have the tracing machine ignore the non complete squares instead of making incomplete chips on the edges? Seems especially wasteful. I get they make them round and all, but it shouldn't be hard to calculate how many full chips can be made and then only fill that part of the wafer?
 
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