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A thin slice of nothing that holds the whole digital universe.
means A wafer is a very thin, crisp piece of something — a biscuit, a communion bread, a seal of paper, or a flat slice of semiconductor on which microchips are built.
from From Middle English 'wafre,' borrowed from Anglo-Norman 'wafre,' itself from a Germanic source — a cousin of the same root that gives us 'waffle,' both tracing back to a word meaning a honeycomb-patterned cake. The thread runs from sweet pressed cakes to the thin sealing discs of old letters, and finally — in the 20th century — to the gleaming silicon slices of the electronics age.
- chip cradle
- Silicon wafers birth every processor you own
- holy thin
- Communion wafers date back over a millennium
- size race
- Modern wafers span 300 millimeters across
- crisp cousin
- Edible wafers stack ice cream and chocolate bars
- pure crystal
- Each starts as one flawless silicon ingot
nabisco sugar wafer — iconic thin crispy cookie made by nabisco since 1903, sold globally
ice cream wafer cone — edible cone made from wafer batter, standard for serving ice cream since early 1900s
semiconductor silicon wafer — thin slice of silicon used to manufacture computer chips, typically 300mm diameter in modern fabrication