stackyFACTSFlatter than a pancake and infinitely more expensive. To print microscopic circuitry, raw silicon is polished to an atomic level of absolute flatness. If a semiconductor wafer were miraculously scaled up to the exact size of our planet, its tallest mountain would barely measure a few inches high.
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