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[-] NOT_RICK@lemmy.world 27 points 1 week ago

What’s extremely rare about silicon?

[-] AllHailZorglub@sh.itjust.works 1 points 5 days ago

Silicon itself is certainly not rare (even if the purification process is somewhat exigent on the feedstock), but modern chips uses a lot of rare-ish elements in their makeup (hafnium for mosfet gates, gold for chip/package connexion, etc...).

[-] topherclay@lemmy.world 4 points 6 days ago

"Extremely rare rocks" is not the same thing as "extremely rare minerals" and is definitely not the same thing as "extremely rare elements."

[-] olosta@lemmy.world 40 points 1 week ago
[-] Thorry84@feddit.nl 14 points 1 week ago

But that's more of an economic issue than it is a technical one. It's possible to process the less pure stuff, but it's cheaper to just get the good stuff to start with.

[-] 00L10@feddit.org 7 points 1 week ago

Maybe it's about the stuff that's added to the silicon.

[-] Pyro@programming.dev 26 points 1 week ago* (last edited 6 days ago)

I would be proud of being a warlock, but I'm more like the guy who speaks to the guy who speaks to the guy who speaks to the warlock who speaks to the stones.

[-] Gradually_Adjusting@lemmy.world 12 points 1 week ago

The next best thing to being a warlock is being a safe distance from warlocks

[-] DankOfAmerica@reddthat.com 5 points 1 week ago

Sometimes, the magic signal does not reach and it ruins someone entire day

[-] Gradually_Adjusting@lemmy.world 1 points 1 week ago

Anon has been reading The Pattern On The Stone

this post was submitted on 31 Jan 2025
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