Intel Shows How a CPU is Made

[BrendanS]

Titanius sorry to say but the explanation is electrochemically correct...

In electrochemistry the place where oxidation (electrons are lost and ions are formed) is named the anode... (the positive or + terminal in the diagram... +ve copper ions would be formed from a solid copper anode... and the place where the electrons are 'given back' to the ions is named the cathode (the -ve terminal in the diagram)...

SO it is correct when they say the (+ve copper) ions formed at the anode would move towards the (-ve charge of the) cathode...

Hope this helps...

 

[shavkatkuchimov]

Made up of 25 percent silicon, sand is, after oxygen, the second most frequent chemical element that's in the earth's crust.


Sand isn't an element, Silicon is.

Plus Oxygen is not the most frequent, the first one is Carbon

 

[cichy69]

very interesting..

 

[Guest]

LOL Intel still uses electro-plating for depositing copper. Straight out of the stone age.

 

[daphreak]

[citation][nom]thearm[/nom]AMD is saying 'how the *uck do we do that?!'[/citation]

AMD's manufacturing is exactly the same process (only they are sometimes a tech node behind Intel ie 45nm v 65nm). Their design process differs slightly in that Intel uses less human involvement which results in less optimized designs ( power, area, etc ) but lower development costs.

For those of you that are curious... the XXnm designation for a process is the smallest feature that can be made using the steps shown in this little presentation. Intel just came out with 32nm NAND flash chips and uses 45nm for i7's.

 

[Guest]

Great Article again! thank tomshardware

 

[Guest]

Naaaa! They don't really slice the ingot with a rotating saw to make those 300mm wafers do they?!?!

 

[Guest]

these slides are awesome, It really helped me to understand what's going on in the base of hardwares.. Be green

 

[OvrClkr]

closed...

 

[Guest]

So many steps to create simple chip. Someone needs to come up with a better way! Nanoengineers need to take over this problem now! As stated in the slide, these are only the most important steps out of hundred. There needs to be a better way to create microprocessors; I will show you my way in 3 years.....