| | |   Diced wafers. These are individual silicon chips (rejects) cut from a larger wafer such as you can see examples of above.  Had they not been rejected, these would have been placed in an IC package and then robots would have soldered a nest of extremely fine wires all around to make contact with the inputs and outputs on the chip and connect them to the pins on the package.
 Source: SoCal (Nevada), Inc
 Contributor: Theodore Gray
 Acquired: 11 July, 2003
 Price: $5
 Size: 1/2"
 Purity: >99.99999%
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