Intel 25nm Fabrication Lab Pictures

[dtmcnamara]

Not sure if anyone else on here will find this cool or not, but to me this is amazingly awesome. ENJOY

FROM http://www.pcper.com/article.php?aid=863&type=expert

Outside the lab
http://www.pcper.com/images/reviews/863/IMFT.jpg

All floor tiles are perforated for the downdraft ventilation necessary to keep airborne particulates to a minimum.
http://www.pcper.com/images/reviews/863/floor.jpg

One part of the flash memory stage
http://www.pcper.com/images/reviews/863/FOUP.jpg

One of the lithography rooms. Lighting is controlled as to prevent any possible adverse effects on the light sensitive photoresist.
http://www.pcper.com/images/reviews/863/litho.jpg

A photolithography mask. Although the mask is much larger than the die, it must be cut by an electron beam to obtain the necessary detail.
http://www.pcper.com/images/reviews/863/mask.jpg

2TB of flash memory in the hands of the guy...worth around $6,000 retail
http://www.pcper.com/images/news/heisman-cropped.jpg

Time line of flash memory
http://www.pcper.com/images/reviews/863/progression.jpg

End product
http://www.pcper.com/images/reviews/750/x25-top.jpg

[EJdm]

imma kinda useless in this topic but damn that was kinda kool

[dtmcnamara]

lol...i just want that 2TB platter of flash memory

[civicturbo10]

Yeah the intel fab facility is a work of art. Multiple times cleaner than a hospital. I saw the intel fab video on youtube before and it's just technolgy manufacturing at it's greatest....good stuff.