The in get of silicon is created as a cylinder as the solid silicon Trist crystal is grown and pulled out of molten silicon which leads to round wafers. Many of the processing steps in the fab to produce the chips on the wafer based on circular polishing motions and spinning away for Around its center which also requires angular symmetry and just wouldn't work well or as efficiently with a non circular wafer. The whole thing is like eight nine minutes and the good part starts at about just shy of two minutes And we'll put a timestamp link in the show notes. So if you don't agree, that's fine. Just let people like things All right Joe Lyon wrote a wrote in

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