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Anonymous
Quad Core
>> Anonymous
How many idle?
>> Anonymous
Not mine. I can't remember where I found this image. Digg? Not sure.
>> Anonymous
>>324942

it's on their site
>> Anonymous
awesome
>> Anonymous
fucking
>> Anonymous
image
>> Anonymous
I has one!!!
>> Anonymous
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forgive my ignorance... but how exactly does this work? I mean, I see images like the OP a lot, but do they just chop them up to make individual home computer processors out of the huge wafers? also, what do they do with the ones on the edge that get cut off, like this pic...
>> Anonymous
>>325414
The edge ones actually get tossed.
>> Anonymous
>>325436
seems rather wasteful...
>> Anonymous
Yeah I do Electronic Engineering and apparently only like 1/4 of those get used anyway, coz when they're tested they don't actually work.

The process is incredibly wasteful, but not wasteful enough to make it worth inversing in the necessary R & D needed to improve the overall process.
>> Anonymous
>>325414
I worked in an AT&T IC fab for 13 years. Did a lot of QC in a epitaxial layer cleanroom. The edges have high failure rates. Layers like EPI are applied to wafers in reactors. The edges get varied coverage so they test poorly.

Wiki should have a good breakdown on the entire process.
>> Anonymous
>>325464
"but not wasteful enough to make it worth inversing in the necessary R & D needed to improve the overall process."

I left years ago and already watched wafers go from 3 inch to pie plates. The precious metal gets reclaimed and growing silicon is cheap.
>> Anonymous
>>325436
"fapped", shurely?