  Diced wafers. 
These are individual silicon chips (rejects) cut from a larger wafer such as you can see examples of above.  Had they not been rejected, these would have been placed in an IC package and then robots would have soldered a nest of extremely fine wires all around to make contact with the inputs and outputs on the chip and connect them to the pins on the package. 
Source: SoCal (Nevada), Inc 
Contributor: Theodore Gray 
Acquired: 11 July, 2003 
Price: $5 
Size: 1/2" 
Purity: >99.99999%
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