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Multi-Project Wafer (MPW)

A multi-project wafer (MPW) is a processed wafer whereby multiple designs were amalgamated into a single design, thereby amortizing the wafer fabrication cost across many designs, teams, and users.

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The semiconductor fabrication process is very expensive, requiring dozens of masks with each costing in the millions for a leading-edge process. Designing prototype chips by small organizations, schools, and other entities is cost prohibitive due to lack of volume. Multi-project wafers were introduced as a service to solve the cost problem. In multi-project wafer, the mask set consists of an amalgamation of all the separate designs. BY combining many small project into a single mask set, the cost of mask making, wafer fabrication, and assembly is shared by many customers, significantly reducing the price of fabricating a small quantity of chips.

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