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| [LTT]I Can Die Now. - Intel Fab Tour! |
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| MathWizard:
I wonder what the cheapest test equipment is, Intel would ever use in their factories/foundries |
| tom66:
There's probably a DMM somewhere used by an electrician. Maybe even a Volt-Stick! |
| daqq:
I like how everything is blurred :) |
| hans:
Well, it's better a tour than Apple's "silicon" lab you see in press talks, where they place a 15$ board holder made of plastic (but admittedly, it's blue plastic) on a bunch of suspiciously empty white tables to make it seem hi-tech: https://youtu.be/CUwg_JoNHpo?t=1792 Blue is exquisite right? Their background lighting is blue. Their screwdrivers are blue. The guy even wears a blue shirt. I digress. That was actually quite cool to see, but also it kind of breaks the magic for me. Apparently even Intel cannot formulate the equivalence of a closed-form expression to QA testing: just get a wide range/variety of products and bruteforce test them, hoping that will cover everything that's out there. It's an approximation of the real solution which would test an infinite range of devices.. Also looking at some of the OSS NVIDIA driver code that was released not too long ago, it's full of if (MANUFACTURER == THIS && PANEL_ID == THAT) { /* APPLY TIMING HOTFIX */ } I was hoping that electronics from these manufacturers would have use well defined and tested standards (separate from the products) considering the high cost involved for development. Oh well. They also released a 2nd video last week: That machine that can fine tune individual transistors is so cool.. unfortunate that most of it was proprietary and hidden from cameras. |
| MathWizard:
Linus went back again, and got to see some cool test beds for PCIe 5 testing |
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