Silicon Dioxide Grown on a wafer during chip fabrication to serve as an insulating layer. A large, cylindrical, single crystal made from purified silicon. The cylinder is sliced into thin wafers which are used for making computer chips. Silicon Wafer Intel uses wafers of pure silicon cut from a silicon ingot to make microprocessors. Silicon, the primary ingredient of beach sand, is a semiconductor of electricity.
Semiconductors are materials that can be altered to be either a conductor or an insulator.
The form factor for Intel's sixth-generation Pentium Pro CPU chip. Socket 8 is a 387-pin ZIF socket with connections for the CPU and one or two SRAM dies for the Level 2 cache. The form factor for Intel's Pentium II CPUs. Slot 1 replaces the Socket 7 and Socket 8 form factors used by previous Pentium processors. Communication between the Level 2 cache and CPU is at half the CPU's clock speed.