Recycling chips completes circuit
New IBM process scrubs wafers clean allowing reuse; silicon to be salvaged
IBM Corp.'s electronic chip-making plant in Burlington, Vt., used to destroy its leftover silicon wafers. Now the plant is turning them into clean solar-generated electricity. Engineers at the plant have devised a process that scrubs used wafers clean, without the use of corrosive chemicals. The cleaned wafers are reused multiple times at the Burlington plant, then resold to companies that ... (Full article: 622 words)
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