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Chip Terminology

  • • Silicon Ingot – sausage-like single crystal
  • • Wafer – slice from above
  • • Die – one chip's area on a wafer
  • • Chip – a mounted die
  • • Yield – fraction that are good
  • • SSI, MSI, LSI, VLSI, WSI – * Scale Integration;
  • Small, Medium, Large, Very Large, Wafer