also: はんどうたいウェハ
semiconductor wafer
Technical term for a thin slice of semiconductor material used in the fabrication of integrated circuits.
Manufacturing semiconductor wafers requires advanced technology.
Standard spelling using the katakana form ウェハ.
Variant spelling using ウエハ; less common but still seen.
Compound of 半導体 (semiconductor) and ウェハ (wafer), a loanword from English.