[BrendaEM] walks us through a teardown of a machine that was designed under just such a lack of constraint. It sat inside of a big box whose job was to take silicon wafers in on one side and spit ...

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Intel's foundry business never seems far from the headlines these days, not least because various ex-executives continue to ...

The same Redditor pointed out later under the post that this appears to be what's known as a "test wafer" used to calibrate the lithography machines that pattern the circuitry onto production wafers.

User defined and ASTM/SEMI scan patterns are used to generate a full 3-dimensional image of the wafer. Easy to Use.... The standard Windows® user interface makes the Proforma 300SA easy to use and set ...

High-precision Laser Wafer Marking technologies are designed ... product transport and handling, machine vision, and fume extraction. Engineers can tailor the process to accommodate virtually ...

The silicon wafer factory includes ingot pulling, machine processing, slicing, and silicon processing. Last May, Trina Solar announced it signed an agreement with an unspecified state-owned entity ...

Instead it's a test wafer containing dummy circuitry layouts used to evaluate the performance and calibration of the hyper-complex lithography machines that etch the patterns onto the wafer that ...