What are memory chips made of?
Memory chips take silicon wafer, nitrogen gas, photoresist and copper directly. Trace them back and you pass 23 made things on the way to 10 raw materials.
How memory chips are made What is made from it See it on the map
What goes straight in
From the ground: 10 raw materials
- Quartz through silicon wafer
- Air through copper
- Copper ore through copper
- Water through copper
- Sulfur through copper, sulfuric acid
- Coal through silicon wafer, polysilicon, metallurgical silicon
- Timber through silicon wafer, polysilicon, metallurgical silicon
- Natural gas through silicon wafer, polysilicon, hydrogen
- Rock salt through silicon wafer, polysilicon, hydrochloric acid, chlorine
- Crude oil through photoresist, phenolic resin, phenol, propylene
Made along the way: 19 things
Metals 1
Chemicals and fuels 14
ArgonOxygen gasSulfuric acidHydrochloric acidHydrogenPhenolFormaldehydeCharcoalChlorineBenzenePropyleneMethanolNaphthaToluene