Geography of Silicon Chip

The making of silicon chips is a Light Industry. This means the products a small light and easily transported.

The inputs processes and outputs of the creation of the silicon chip is:

Inputs                                                                           

Silica Sand

Copper

Hydrofluoric acid

Nitric acid

Processes 
Heating in Furnaces 
Fractional Distillation
Czochralski
Wire Saw 
CVD
Chemical Mechanical Polishing

Outputs
Silicon Chip
Broken Silicon Chips

That is only to name a few inputs processes and outputs of make the silicon chips.
FABs is the name given to the clean room facility that make the silicon due to tiny dirty particles destroying silicon chips. An example of these FABs is in Leixlip in County Kildare Ireland. Sit for Fabs are specially pick for flat stable ground and good transport to receive and transport goods and resource. These sit can cost Billions to build and run.
Silicon Chip are use all over the world in many devices from computer to even toys we use them every day but you now know how they are made.

I referenced
Intel Museum website
https://www-ssl.intel.com/content/www/us/en/history/museum-transistors-to-transformations-brochure.html
Tech Radar
http://www.techradar.com/news/computing-components/processors/how-sand-is-transformed-into-silicon-chips-599785

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