
From Sand to Silicon: The Huge Endeavor to Produce a Tiny Intel Wafer Chips
More than 50 billion extremely tiny transistors, each 10,000 times thinner than a human hair, are installed on some Intel wafers. They are produced in enormous, immaculate industrial rooms with floors that can reach seven stories high and span four football fields. In many ways, microchips represent the backbone of the contemporary economy. They supply…