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CPU Manufacturing process in pictures

R5GTT

R5GTT

R5GTT

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Found this and thought I'd share it since I find it fascinating the scale at which they produce the transistors and stuff.

(Watching Invisible worlds on BBC1 last night when Hammond etched the name of the show onto a tiny part of a human hair got me thinking about it!)

http://www.tomshardware.com/picturestory/514-intel-cpu-processor-core-i7.html



Maybe posted before and maybe common knowledge to a lot of you but if you didnt know much about it like me it makes you realise how complex a cpu really is.
 
Good read, and that show was amazing last night, i couldn't believe it when he etched the name of the show onto one scale on a human hair. What made me laugh is the text box he wrote it in lol
 
That is an interesting read, thanks for posting. :)

Now watch these:


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Earlier I was wondering if I could find any pictures like this. Very interesting! How the hell does someone think of doing all this? Well we will get some silicon and play with it for a while!
 
Good read, I tried to find out about this myself a while back and it was incredibly complicated, this was much easier to understand :)
 
square_nothing said:
yeah, i don’t understand how they connect up such small components, its amazing how precise it all is.
wonder what % fail when manufacturing
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It can be quite a big percentage in the early days of production on a new Chip type. Thats the reason the PS3 was so expensive in the beginning of its life. The Cell Processor Yield was extremely bad.
 
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