Timeline for Why does increasing sensor size necessarily lead to lower silicon wafer utilization?
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| Aug 29, 2014 at 13:01 | comment | added | B Shaw | @BobbyAlexander - Because sensors are a type of IC, using the same types of processes to fabricate, e.g. Starting with a Silicon boule, slice, polish, lithographic steps, etching steps, deposition, etc. | |
| Aug 29, 2014 at 7:57 | comment | added | bobbyalex | @MichaelT: How exactly is sensor fabrication related to chip fabrication? | |
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| Aug 28, 2014 at 20:45 | comment | added | user13451 | Photography seniors are incidentally running counter to the rest of the industry in that we want bigger sensors while the rest of the fabrication industry wants smaller chips (faster clock speeds, higher yields...) thus it poses an interesting anti-economy of anti-scale. | |
| Aug 28, 2014 at 16:50 | history | edited | TFuto | CC BY-SA 3.0 |
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| Aug 28, 2014 at 16:43 | history | answered | TFuto | CC BY-SA 3.0 |