fabrication of wafer (computer chips) ... "fabrication"?

"Mr. Man-wai Chang" <[email protected]> Sun, 21 Jun 2026 10:36:03 +0800

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Why is the manufacturing of computer chips also called "fabrication"?

Is it a dirty ulgy little tick to joke about the legal meaning of 
"fabrication"?

FABRICATION in Traditional Chinese - Cambridge Dictionary
<https://dictionary.cambridge.org/dictionary/english-chinese-traditional/fabrication>

* the act of producing a product, especially in
   an industrial process

* the act of inventing false information in order
   to deceive someone, or the false information itself





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