What do AMD and Nvidia do with their Dead Chips?

[iamdarkyoshi]

Just wondering, no process is perfect and many dies end up not working properly, maybe they cannot handle the target clock speeds, or maybe they do not work at all. But the ones that do not work at the target clock speeds, what do they do with them? Are they just thrown out or recycled? Seems to me like they could use them to make a bunch of gimpy F@H cards or something

[ReesZRB]

Recycle it, and reuse the materials I think.

[ShadyHost]

I don't know for sure but I would imagine they recycle them. Computer chips are made of expensive raw materials. 

[ZetZet]

Just now, ShadyHost said:

I don't know for sure but I would imagine they recycle them. Computer chips are made of expensive raw materials. 

raw material is just sand 

[ShadyHost]

Just now, ZetZet said:

raw material is just sand 

Processing said sand is expensive. 

[ShadowCaptain]

3 minutes ago, iamdarkyoshi said:

Just wondering, no process is perfect and many dies end up not working properly, maybe they cannot handle the target clock speeds, or maybe they do not work at all. But the ones that do not work at the target clock speeds, what do they do with them? Are they just thrown out or recycled? Seems to me like they could use them to make a bunch of gimpy F@H cards or something

Well that is part of the binning process I guess, gimped GPUs can be used for low teir GPUs etc, 

 

I assume most are just destroyed/recycled 

 

I think the yields are decent

[ReesZRB]

Just now, ZetZet said:

raw material is just sand 

Can't believe I'm paying $300 for just 5 ounces of sand.

[ZetZet]

1 minute ago, ShadyHost said:

Processing said sand is expensive. 

yes, but you said raw materials are expensive

[Enderman]

Just now, ReesZRB said:

Can't believe I'm paying $300 for just 5 ounces of sand.

purest sand in the world

and its freakin expensive to purify sand

[Marziman]

6 minutes ago, iamdarkyoshi said:

 

Intel does this

AMD does this

[ReesZRB]

Just now, Enderman said:

purest sand in the world

and its freakin expensive to purify sand

I bet it costs them like $100 to make them and $200 profit

[Marziman]

1 minute ago, ReesZRB said:

Can't believe I'm paying $300 for just 5 ounces of sand.

Sand, and a micro architecture.

[pagani123]

3 minutes ago, ZetZet said:

raw material is just sand 

its more than just sand 

 

 

[ShadyHost]

It's possible the chips themselves aren't that much in raw materials. Motherboards and other PCBs sure do have a lot of goodies on them though 

[App4that]

5 minutes ago, ZetZet said:

raw material is just sand 

And the forth most common element on the surface of the earth is aluminum, yet we recycle it.

 

hmmmmm

[ZetZet]

2 minutes ago, Maybach123 said:

its more than just sand 

 

 

duh?

[OpticFusion]

People cost a lot you know.

[CyberMist]

Intel, AMD, Nvidia simply repack it and sell with smaller price. And stupid guys buy them, latter find that they got screwed up, they in rage eat chips. And AMD, Intel and nvidia win because no cost for crap/dead chip utilization.

[Djole123]

As we had in Phenom II x3, they will probably lock the thing that is not working and sell it as a Tri-core or Dual-core

[ZetZet]

4 minutes ago, App4that said:

And the forth most common element on the surface of the earth is aluminum, yet we recycle it.

 

hmmmmm

we recycle aluminium because it's easy af and that makes it cost effective to do.

 

we don't recycle duraluminium because that's not cost effective, so planes just get left to sit there.

[OpticFusion]

If I was Intel and AMD I would make the employees wear the dead chips.

[glitchmaster0001]

if the processors dont hit thier target clock speeds then they juts get downclocked to the lower model. say like for example one of the i5 cores dont work but 3 of them do then intel would just disable 2 of the 4 cores and box it as an i3 with 2 cores and 4 threads. 

[Djole123]

1 minute ago, OpticFusion said:

If I was Intel and AMD I would make the employees wear the dead chips.

You mean something like this:

 

[glitchmaster0001]

Just now, Djole123 said:

You mean something like this:

 

no need for the thug gold chains when you can wear this and be OG

[App4that]

1 minute ago, ZetZet said:

we recycle aluminium because it's easy af and that makes it cost effective to do.

 

we don't recycle duraluminium because that's not cost effective, so planes just get left to sit there.

No, close but no. Silicon is found in quartz (sand) but that sand is mostly oxygen. Like the aluminum found in feldspar. Much more cost effective to recycle it.