Re: fabrication of wafer (computer chips) ... "fabrication"?
"....winston" <[email protected]> Sun, 21 Jun 2026 10:51:29 -0400
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On 06/21/2026 12:04 AM, Paul in Houston TX wrote: > 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. From the Latin word - fabricare construct, build, fashion Chips are the result of building/constructing hundreds of layers of circuits on a crystal of semiconducting material. -- ...w¡ñ§±¤ñ