The almost dinner-platesized eight-inch wafers carry twice as many chips as the previous six-inch wafers, and four times as many as the old four-inch wafers.
而如盤子般的一片八吋晶圓，上面可以負載的晶片數，比以往的六吋晶圓多出一倍，更是老式四吋晶圓的四倍以上。