On the heels of Intel’s launch of an environmentally friendly new chip fabrication plant in Arizona, IBM is showing it, too, knows how to be green. The company announced a new silicon reclamation process that won a recent pollution prevention award. The new process, in operation at IBM’s Burlington, Vt., manufacturing facility, uses a “specialized pattern removal technique” to salvage semiconductor wafers, the silicon disks used to create processors.
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Trashed Silcon Wafers Find a Place in the Sun
Posted by: Fred J. Aun October 30, 2007 11:03 AMOn the heels of Intel’s launch of an environmentally friendly new chip fabrication plant in Arizona, IBM is showing it, too, knows how to be green. The company announced a new silicon reclamation process that won a recent pollution prevention award. The new process, in operation at IBM’s Burlington, Vt., manufacturing facility, uses a “specialized pattern removal technique” to salvage semiconductor wafers, the silicon disks used to create processors.