From sand to processor, or how a CPU is made
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From sand to processor, or how a CPU is made
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Re: From sand to processor, or how a CPU is made
#2Fascinating read. The end bit with the "binning" reminds me of WOW when you would sometimes proc and get a pristine cut in Jewel Crafting.
Re: From sand to processor, or how a CPU is made
#3very educational. i knew where Si came from but never really knew how circuitry was created. i'd love to see the machinery behind the actual design/production of chips. superb submit
Re: From sand to processor, or how a CPU is made
#4As an FYI, parts of this article have been taken without any attribution from:
http://download.intel.com/pressroom/kits/chipmaking/Making_o...
http://download.intel.com/newsroom/kits/chipmaking/pdfs/Sand...
An example being the sentence "Sand, especially quartz, has high percentages of silicon in the form of silicon dioxide (SiO2) and is the base ingredient for semiconductor manufacturing." which seems to have been copied almost word for word.
Other parts of the article appear to have been simply rewritten from other - more reputable/original - sources too.
So to sum up, this source shouldn't be upvoted, IMO.
Also as an FYI, I love how Google rank this on page 1 for [How a CPU is made]... (indeed, above the original sources)
Re: From sand to processor, or how a CPU is made
#5Fascinating read. The end bit with the "binning" reminds me of WOW when you would sometimes proc and get a pristine cut in Jewel Crafting.
How can someone down vote this comment? Too many trolls in HN lately...
Re: From sand to processor, or how a CPU is made
#6I'd love to know where that sand comes from. A professor in college once told us that not just any sand works for this process, and many wars have been fueled by the need to secure sources of that particular sand in Africa. Couldn't find any references, though...
Re: From sand to processor, or how a CPU is made
#7Fascinating read. The end bit with the "binning" reminds me of WOW when you would sometimes proc and get a pristine cut in Jewel Crafting.
How can someone down vote this comment? Too many trolls in HN lately...
I knew it would happen anyway :) Probably the only comment I've made on HN where I knew beforehand that mentioning WOW would instantly attract the down-vote hammer. (I don't even play it any more, but knew if I mentioned that tidbit of information as well, I would get downvoted by people who don't play WOW, and people who play WOW now. ha).
Re: From sand to processor, or how a CPU is made
#8Fascinating read. The end bit with the "binning" reminds me of WOW when you would sometimes proc and get a pristine cut in Jewel Crafting.
How can someone down vote this comment? Too many trolls in HN lately...
Comments that don't add anything (extra information, or point out a problem with the article) tend to get voted down. "I liked this" is not considered a valid comment on HN.
Re: From sand to processor, or how a CPU is made
#9As an FYI, parts of this article have been taken without any attribution from: http://download.intel.com/pressroom/kits/chipmaking/Making_o... http://download.intel.com/newsroom/kits/chipmaking/pdfs/Sand... An example being the sentence "Sand, especially quartz, has high percentages of silicon in the form of silicon dioxide (SiO2) and is the base ingredient for semiconductor manufacturing." which seems to have been c…
Just after the video, the two links you provided are mentioned.
Maybe other sources are more reputable/original, but this article sums them up nicely and in an enjoyable read, which those PDFs are not (from image quality to layout). Form indeed matters.
Re: From sand to processor, or how a CPU is made
#10As an FYI, parts of this article have been taken without any attribution from: http://download.intel.com/pressroom/kits/chipmaking/Making_o... http://download.intel.com/newsroom/kits/chipmaking/pdfs/Sand... An example being the sentence "Sand, especially quartz, has high percentages of silicon in the form of silicon dioxide (SiO2) and is the base ingredient for semiconductor manufacturing." which seems to have been c…
Those links appear at the bottom of the page. So unless the author added them just now after seeing your comment... I'm glad plagiarism by itself is not a crime, there are some real witch hunters out there. (You can find a lot of them by looking up Einstein's history.) If I were Google I'd probably favor an HTML page over a PDF too when the content is more or less the same.