Silicon is an important part of electronics production, from simple ceramic or glass insulators to modern semiconductor-based computers.
This mod is a realism-focused overhaul, but with an overriding emphasis on simplicity.

Basic circuit (green)

• Stone brick (ceramic insulator) added to the recipe.
• Replaces copper wire in power distribution entities (poles, substation).

Polysilicon

• Replaces basic circuits in the advanced circuit (red) recipe.
• Grow silicon polycrystals in the chemical plant, using plain stone, steam, and petroleum gas.
• Solar panels require polysilicon instead of copper.
• Advanced circuits replace basic circuits in the assembling machine mk2.

Silicon wafers

• Produced in large batches using polysilicon, requiring a large amount of time and energy.
• Combine with sulfuric acid, copper cable, and plastic to make processing units (blue).
• Also used to craft high-performance solar panels (x2 power output).

Each circuit tier (green, red, blue) unlocks a new lab.

• Basic labs are essentially electromechanical computers, with high power requirements and low efficiency. Zero module slots.
• Advanced labs utilize polysilicon transistors to achieve much lower power requirements. Equivalent to vanilla lab, with two module slots.
• Smart labs pack a large amount of microprocessors into a small space, for unprecedented gains in power and efficiency. Four module slots.

The silicon wafer graphics were shamelessly lifted from brevven's mod: Silica & Silicon.
That file is provided here under the MIT license, which is included in the file LICENSE.

Many thanks to brevven and the graphic's creator, snouz for allowing reuse.