I Can Die Now. - Intel Fab Tour

[jaypro]

7 hours ago, Nystemy said:

Though, I can understand why Intel wants to keep a lot a secret, it is the simple "I can neither confirm nor deny" type of business, since their competitors as well have a great deal of knowledge in the field, so even seemingly minor stuff can give away fairly major things.

I wouldn't even say its mostly for competitors.  You want to hide things from suppliers and vendors.

 

An example is, Company A and Company B can both sell a washing machine.

Imagine you needs 10 washing machines.  They find out that Company A's does better for their needs, so they buy 10 from them.
 

You don't tell wan them to know you needed 10.  Keep them unaware that you don't use any from Company B.

They would jack up the price knowing they are the sole preferred supplier.

 

Same thing goes for chemicals, raw wafers, tools, etc.

[Streetguru]

Ima take a wild guess and say the uncensored video data wasn't allowed to leave the facility

[mariushm]

12 hours ago, GodAtum said:

Why is the wafer a circle when the cpu is square? that creates a lot of waste?

 

 

The silicon ingots are made like that, see video below. 

As others said, a lot of steps involve spinning the wafer to coat evenly the wafer surface with some chemical or some material, and polishing the wafer is also easier if the wafer is round. 

Also has to do with the LENS and optical systems used in the process of making the chips.... optical aberrations and errors will be higher towards the corners of a square because the length from the center of the wafer to the corners would be higher than the radius of a circle.

 

 

 

[dilpickle]

Honestly it was a pretty boring video that didn't show us anything we hadn't seen before. 

 

All we saw was a bunch of giant white boxes while Linus narrates. He could have done that from home. No need to travel half way around the world.

[agatong439]

11 hours ago, dilpickle said:

Honestly it was a pretty boring video that didn't show us anything we hadn't seen before. 

 

All we saw was a bunch of giant white boxes while Linus narrates. He could have done that from home. No need to travel half way around the world.

The whole thing was more about Linus getting to see everything first hand and just ended up making it a business trip to explain to the fans and show off some stuff.

 

[AnonymousGuy]

6 hours ago, agatong439 said:

The whole thing was more about Linus getting to see everything first hand and just ended up making it a business trip to explain to the fans and show off some stuff.

 

This.   In a fab: look around, everything is done 100% perfectly because it's installed by the best people in the business where money is no object.

[Ofir aviel]

On 4/13/2022 at 8:56 PM, OriAr said:

So Linus was about maybe 5 minutes of driving from my house.

That's pretty amazing. I've been waiting for this video a long time since he was seen in Israel (My LinkedIn was full of posts about his trip)

And the plane he took was near my house

[Just.Oblivious]

So, time to go deeper: when is the ASML tour coming?

[POP PL4YZ]

On 4/13/2022 at 8:10 PM, James said:

Linus travels to Israel to get a tour an Intel Manufacturing Center known as Fab 28. This level of access is absolutely unprecedented.

 

 

 

When will we get the uncensored version on Floatplane XD 

[chrome_wheels]

Fab 28 is huge. Interesting video.

[Guest]

The comments section is literally full of obviously political statements, thanks to Intel letting Linus make a heavily censored tour (because of corporate politics of course) of a fab facility in a country that is currently in a heavily political conflict.

Such is life I guess: everything is political.

 

Now I can die now.

 

 

Oh, and also people are basically declared not buying Intel products for obvious political reasons.