MathiasMi t1_jeb8p3i wrote on March 30, 2023 at 7:22 PM

Reply to comment by fubo in Eli5: On a production line, how do they make a car, plane or anything else be identical from one another without differences? by SideburnG

We live near the Intel fabrication plant. They have a thing called "The Million Dollar Mistake" where a fab tech will drop the freshly cured silicon sheet for making microchips. Its about a million dollars worth of potential product and EVERY EMPLOYEE has dropped it at some point.

destinationhades t1_jec5d95 wrote on March 30, 2023 at 10:57 PM

That sheet is called “wafer”, cut from a monosilicon ingot, costs maybe 10-20 bucks. Ok, more if it was processed, but come on! It is like saying you are a mass murderer if you jerk off.