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You can buy an 8-inch silicon wafer with these chips for $9000. That sounds expensive, but a wafer holds an amazing 100,587 tiny chips. That yields a price of nine cents per chip, making them cheap enough to use in disposable tickets.

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[-] iridaniotter@hexbear.net 4 points 4 months ago

The salt grain for scale photo is wild

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