Term · General Industry
Scrap
Material written off as unusable and destroyed rather than sold, reworked or downgraded. Scrapped wafers and parts are accounted for as yield loss and must be physically destroyed to keep them out of the grey market.
- Also known as
- Scrapped material
- Type
- Term
- Domain
- General Industry, Fab floor and quality
Notes
Certificates of destruction are routinely required, because scrapped parts that reappear for sale are a known counterfeit source.
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