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Re:TSMC Kicks Off Volume Production of 7nm Chips by pocak on Tuesday April 24, 2018 @09:25PM (#16918053)
If your chips aren't very large, you can fit multiple copies in the reticle. E.g., if the litho machine has a 40mm by 50mm reticle, and you're making a 10mm by 10mm die, you can expose 20 dice at a time. It's usually worth it to go out to the edges even if you only get a few complete chips from the exposure. I can't find a wafer picture for Nvidia's GV100, but presumably a giant chip like that uses the whole reticle, so I don't expect to see partial chips on its wafer.

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