How Chips are Manufactured

Clean Room

All the processes described take place inside a clean room. You may have already seen some pictures of people working inside a clean room with special clothes, called “bunny suits”.

Bunny SuitsFigure 5: Bunny suits.

Since we are talking about microscopic transistors, even the smallest particle of dust can contaminate and destroy the chip, see some examples in Figure 6.

Clean RoomFigure 6: Even the smallest dust particle can destroy the chip.

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