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Re:Single-chip processors have reached their limits by ip26 on Monday April 04, 2022 @03:44PM (#30911149)
The other one big obstacle is chips are square while wafers are round.
Re:Single-chip processors have reached their limits by paulmd on Monday April 04, 2022 @06:16PM (#30912690)
it depends on the exact shape of your mask of course, but typically losses around the edges are in the 2-3% range.

It's not really possible to fix this either since wafers need to be round for various manufacturing processes (spinning the wafer for coating or washing stages) and round obviously isn't a dense packing of the mask itself. It just kinda is how it is, square mask and round wafer means you lose a bit off the edges, fact of life.

Re:Single-chip processors have reached their limits by ip26 on Monday April 04, 2022 @09:53PM (#30914413)
The interesting part is loss scales with the die size.