How a CPU is made ... take some sand, and

[muckshifter]

Pictures from Intel ...

http://www.intel.com/pressroom/kits/chipmaking/index.htm


and AMD go one further with a video ...

http://www.tomshardware.com/news/amd-intel-how-cpu-made,8298.html


easy, innit.

 

[Abarbarian]

Looks like dust is the number one enemy from birth to death

 

[Nobody in particular]

Interesting video. Quite weird to think they are made in that way.

 

[nivrip]

Amazing stuff.

So much so that I went down to the beach and gave it a try. Only managed a few sand castles.

 

[captain zed]

I worked in HP about 15 years ago and it was our groups job to separate and test the wafers as they arrived into the company...it was a bit mundane really. I lasted 6 weeks, i think. I couldn't handle the clean room environment back then.
I still work in cleanrooms but not at the electronics industry.....i think human skin flakes were the most common complaint or cause of contamination.

Zzzzz

 

[unknown]

This is great, i just wonder how much for the machines to make chips?

 

[Madxgraphics]

This is great, i just wonder how much for the machines to make chips?

Those machines probably pay for themselves 10 time over every minute...