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Is there a reason it's not roughly a disc if they use the whole wafer ? They could have 50% more surface.

To quote their official response "If the WSE weren't rectangular, the complexity of power delivery, I/O, mechanical integrity and cooling become much more difficult, to the point of impracticality.".

Packaging method can't handle non-square dies?

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