Interesting Tour of nVidia's Failure Mode Testing Facility

[funkyant]

[Psi]

Wow, that was extremely interesting.

[Rerouter]

Also found that very interesting, must be nice to be able to walk up to reasonable bean counters and say buy this $2.5 million dollar machine in order to save $7 million and actually have them pay up,

(Had a few cases of buy this $200 machine to save $1,000 shot down badly)

[funkyant]

When my customers refuse to make long term, money saving purchases, I just buy the gear and rent it to them. So far that strategy has never lost me money, and I now own a lot of gear

[tszaboo]

Very interesting video.

Also found that very interesting, must be nice to be able to walk up to reasonable bean counters and say buy this $2.5 million dollar machine in order to save $7 million and actually have them pay up,

(Had a few cases of buy this $200 machine to save $1,000 shot down badly)

The bean counters that don't understand that frequently used tools bring back their price don't bring back their price.

[XOIIO]

Oooh, perfect video to have a snack while watching.

I toured the mazda plant in hiroshima, sadly no pictures or anything allowed except for in the museum area. They had a little display model of the assembly plant that was controlled with an arduino pro mini on a breadboard, but I figured they would get upset they saw me taking a picture of that lol

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Alright holy crap, I didn't even know 3d x-rays were a thing, that is ridiculously cool!

[rrinker]

When my customers refuse to make long term, money saving purchases, I just buy the gear and rent it to them. So far that strategy has never lost me money, and I now own a lot of gear

 Right - because if they rent it from you, they can charge it off as an operating expense, if they buy it, it's a capital cost. One of the things that is driving companies into cloud based solutions.

[funkyant]

When my customers refuse to make long term, money saving purchases, I just buy the gear and rent it to them. So far that strategy has never lost me money, and I now own a lot of gear

 Right - because if they rent it from you, they can charge it off as an operating expense, if they buy it, it's a capital cost. One of the things that is driving companies into cloud based solutions.

Precisely

[Synthetase]

lol at 6:33 a $2.6m state-of-the-art microscope with a... 3.5" floppy on the desk next to it??? 0.0

[botcrusher]

Considering the vbios could still be stored on a floppy...

[Fulcrum]

Alright holy crap, I didn't even know 3d x-rays were a thing, that is ridiculously cool!

That's the same technique they use when you go to the hospital and get a CT scan.

Also, interesting video. Lots of expensive equipment!

[senso]

lol at 6:33 a $2.6m state-of-the-art microscope with a... 3.5" floppy on the desk next to it??? 0.0

State of the art camera lens(for things like Cannon DSLR's are packaged with a floppy disk that contains the calibration data  )

[Synthetase]

Considering the vbios could still be stored on a floppy...

Just because you can, doesn't mean you should...

[T3sl4co1l]

Awesome!

[AF6LJ]

That was great; now all that needs to be done is develop a means to repair that one in nine billion transistors that went bad.

That may not be so far off.....
Ya Think...

[T3sl4co1l]

That their yields can be so reliable is astonishing.  You'd think they'd be pressed into error correction instead: at least allowing a variable number of cores from a sea of nominal-plus-extras, and making the interconnects more redundant or reliable or reroutable to accommodate.  Such changes probably only have to be done at packaging time, too.  Maybe they do this, but they still have problems that develop later.

Or designing their systems with approximation and error correction in mind, in the active data paths.  Albeit at some cost to density and efficiency.

Tim