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

"....winston" <[email protected]> posted:

> 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.
> 
> 
Fabrication is a perfectly ordinary word meaning "the act of producing a product, especially in
an industrial process", with no need for a far-fetched explanation. "The
the act of inventing false information in order to deceive someone, or the 
false information itself" is 

-- 
athel

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with long periods in Singapore, California, Chile and Canada