Slice an onion in half and one onion pretty much looks like any other onion. Peel it back, layer by layer, and put it under a powerful microscope, and each layer suddenly looks very different.
The same is true for semiconductors. To the outside world, a chip is a chip and an interconnect is an interconnect. Each one has different specs, but even the parts that make up those chips look remar...
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