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

Mr. Man-wai Chang wrote:
> 
> 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

My "guess" is that fabrication probably refers to root word "fabric", so 
fabrication would be making something intricate and complex from a 
simple but very small starting point. i.e: silk thread.