date-created: '2012-09-28'
date-updated: '2025-11-28'
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title: 'Viability of recycling semiconductors in Intel Processors'
description: "This is a speculative class project and needs to be refined before being deployed at any scale. In 1968, scientists, Robert Noyce and Gordon Moore, founded Intel with a vision for semiconductor memory products. By 1971, they had introduced the world's first microprocessor.  Type of Semiconductor and How it's Made   Intel processors use 99.9999% pure silicon to make their wafers. The silicon is grown from melt into a large single crystal ingot."
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