A single 300mm silicon wafer can contain more than 5 trillion transistors — over 50 times the number of stars in the Milky Way galaxy.

A single 300mm silicon wafer carrying Nvidia's latest AI chips represents over $2 million in value!

If a silicon wafer were scaled to the size of the United States, the entire surface would vary in height by less than one inch.

Each silicon wafer is the result of an extraordinary 12–20 week fabrication journey.

The transistors in today's chips are just 2–3 nanometers wide — about 30 silicon atoms.

Modern chip fabrication happens in clean rooms 1,000x cleaner than a hospital operating room.

A single silicon wafer can contain billions of transistors — each smaller than a virus.

Did you know it takes around 2,000 steps to manufacture an advanced IC chip?

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Close-up of a 300mm silicon wafer showing iridescent oxide layer patterns from semiconductor manufacturing

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Why a 12 inch wafer can cost as much as $25,000...

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