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A comment on Cerebras Wafer Scale Engine Gen2 7nm 2.6T Transistors. Parent comment

Re:Cerebras Wafer Scale Engine Gen2 7nm 2.6T Transistors by hinkley on Tuesday August 18, 2020 @11:44PM (#24206936)
Someone is going to figure out that if they cut the wafers on a diagonal they can make even bigger wafers.

And someone will be spending a lot of time trying to figure out how to support a wafer cut lengthwise without shattering it during processing.

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Re:Cerebras Wafer Scale Engine Gen2 7nm 2.6T Transistors by Tuna-Fish on Wednesday August 19, 2020 @12:52AM (#24207232)
That wouldn't work. Modern chips need to be built on epitaxial surfaces, and the only plane they can reliably produce an epitaxial surface on is the horizontal one.
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