Fab employees wear special suits, nicknamed bunny suits, which are designed to keep contaminants such as lint and hair off the wafers during chip manufacturing.
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Clean rooms are thousands of times cleaner than hospital operating rooms.
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Employees in the fab manage the tools in the clean room. Each tool performs a step toward creating a chip on a wafer in the manufacturing process.
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Making chips is a complex process requiring hundreds of precisely controlled steps that result in patterned layers of various materials built one on top of another.
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