inside nVidia's silicon failure lab

[zMeul]

host: Howard Marks - Director of Technology Operations Silicon Failure Analysis Laboratory  at nVidia

holy shit! the amount of millions of USD you have to use to use just to find a single transistor

 

one thing that stood out: they do ESD testing so the GPUs don't go tits up while being handled in the manufacturing process and by the end user

 

the thing that tingled my spidey senses: he said at one point they're analyzing 10nm samples

[oskarha]

Repost?

[zMeul]

Just now, oskarha said:

Repost?

yeah

[Mark77]

Neat.  Considering Nvidia basically had to buy me a new laptop (with plenty of $$ left over) on account of their failure-prone chip in the past, its good that they've stepped up their efforts at quality control and finding defects. 

[Pesmerga]

9 bbbbbillion transistors

[VerticalDiscussions]

Guys, come on. Its 9----BILLIIIOON-----TRANSIIISSTORSS. And IBM only showcased a 7nm cpu with 20----BILLLIONN-TRANSIIISTORSS

[Garfieldus]

Most interesting part was that they already testing 10nm chips there. So in couple years we should expect 10nm architecture based chips.