The Fascinating Journey of CPUs: From Creation to Packaging

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Have you ever wondered how a modern CPU is designed, tested, and manufactured? Same! Intel invited me out to their Malaysian HQ to see how the whole process works. It's bananas.
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Intel has a lot of stuff going on in Malaysia: from their SIMS facility that manufactures testing equipment for their other factories/facilities, to testing labs that put their latest silicon through hell before production, to the actual die sort/prep and packaging, there's a lot to see. In this special episode of Snazzy Labs, we show the process-from start to finish!
0:00 Intel pissed me off
1:02 I only like one person at Intel
2:10 SIMS - Systems Integration & Manufacturing Services Factory
3:54 PG16 - Design and Development Lab
5:12 Failure Analysis Lab
6:31 It starts with sand...
6:51 DSDP - Die Sort, Die Prep
11:11 PGAT - Penang Assembly and Test
13:46 How TF is this even possible?

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@Garrettdx1988 7 ай бұрын

I genuinely don't understand why this video is performing badly. It's so fascinating

@aelaan12 7 ай бұрын

Well, for one, it has only been up for 2 hours and Quinn does not have the broad network like others, though I love him to bits, because his story telling is amazing. It is giving us a different look in the world of KZfaq glam....

@gamm8939 7 ай бұрын

I mean, the channel has been doing pretty bad the last couple of months. The algorithm is killing it.

@jgharding2 7 ай бұрын

I think sometimes it’s things like negative sounding words in titles. On another channel I have I had a video with the word “hates” in the title and basically no one saw it. I ended up removing it so it didn’t affects the rest. So maybe it’s the “made me so mad” in the title? Just a guess though, I don’t actually know.

@gamm8939 7 ай бұрын

@@jgharding2 no there already has been a title change that was very different

@captaindcc 7 ай бұрын

I don't know but I almost didn't click it, it just didn't seem inviting to watch another Intel factory commercial. I'm not saying it is but that's what I thought seeing the thumbnail and title

@MRAMAZRBALLZZ 7 ай бұрын

Sometimes forget how good Snazzy Labs videos are, such a great way of talking, could listen to him for hours.

@snazzy 7 ай бұрын

Awww thanks

@MRAMAZRBALLZZ 7 ай бұрын

@@snazzy ♥️

@Jake__Boll 7 ай бұрын

He’s a good writer for sure

@uuuuuusssseeerrrrrrr 7 ай бұрын

can you do a podcast@@snazzy

@ydoucare55 6 ай бұрын

Why don't you go comb his neckbeard for him.

@MrBaskins2010 7 ай бұрын

Did she Willy Wonka you all into a tour? Not sure why the algo doesn’t promote your videos more. Your knowledge and QUALITY are unmatched. You make videos better than some of the teams 10x your size. Stay snazzy. You need merch socks

@joep1984 7 ай бұрын

I used to work for Microchip, at their fab in Oregon. It was amazing seeing what goes into semiconductors at the literal base level, and being a part of that was a fabulous change of pace from after a decade of retail.

@apocalypse4312 7 ай бұрын

It's always cool to see Malaysia flexing it's manufacturing capabilities. I used to live near the omron factory there and took a tour of it once. It was amazing to see all the advanced facilities there. Hope you got to enjoy the marvelous food there Quinn!

@zhorien 7 ай бұрын

As Malaysian,Thank you for coming.Hope you enjoy your time at our country.

@FernandoAES 7 ай бұрын

Sweet, must be an awesome experience! High-end chip manufacturing is almost magic.

@__aceofspades 7 ай бұрын

This was a great video, one of the best ones I've seen from Intel's lab tours. Intel is an engineering giant, and they are doing everything from the ground up, unlike AMD/Nvidia/Apple/etc. Chip foundries, chip packaging, CPU and GPU architecture teams, test labs, security researcher centers, you name it. Since they have foundries they literally have engineering teams devoted to reducing water consumption that their fabs use.

@TalesOfWar 7 ай бұрын

I like how even Intel aren't running Windows 11 on their production machines, still rocking 10 lol.

@Cyba_IT 7 ай бұрын

11 is running on the ones at 2:05, 5:03 and 5:40 but yeah, I'm surprised they're not running embedded versions of XP😁

@chriswatt2702 7 ай бұрын

@@Cyba_ITI have ditched windows for what is now an ARM based OS because MS kept installing bloatware, tampering with my system configuration, destroying driver compatibility. I don’t blame them for operating old systems. Working for various suppliers to this industry I understand how resistant to change manufacturers are. Which is not a bad thing. They want consistency in their production system. I was surprised how the mylar was used. I worked on a vision system using a line cameras to align dies on a wafer for testing. But that was a decade ago.

@Cyba_IT 7 ай бұрын

@@chriswatt2702 Yeah, Enterprise usually hold back until all/most of the bugs have been ironed out. They leave that to the early adopters and home users. 😂 Hence why Win 10 is still by far the most used Win OS worldwide. I've got 28 PC's in the office running Linux distro's, Chrome, Mac and Windows. I run Windows on the main ones because free and compatible software is easiest to find. They're fine as long as I clean and optimize them often. Sounds like you had an interesting job mate. Was it a CPU production facility?

@Delvis343 7 ай бұрын

Great video! Keep it up, Quinn. So glad you got to tour the factory.

@shrk96 7 ай бұрын

Best video ever. KZfaq algorithm is just a harsh mistress. Keep on going, Quinn!

@jamesoloughlin 7 ай бұрын

You’re 100% right Quinn at 13:50. It’s easy to get jaded but this is a marvel of engineering.

@elina6969 7 ай бұрын

Great video. This, LTT's and GN's factory tours of CPU makers are very cool to watch and really informative

@RealJoseph123 7 ай бұрын

I’m such a nerd to the point these types of videos are entertaining. Intel should’ve let you in like they’d let Linus in a couple of months ago.

@gamm8939 7 ай бұрын

This channel is not even close to be big enough for Intel to let them walk into their factory. Linus would have had well over a million views right now, this video is struggling to brake 10k.

@ConceptCentral 7 ай бұрын

you're the Justin Y of tech youtube

@float32 7 ай бұрын

Letting random (to them) people film can go bad, for PR reasons. Letting randos in with USB devices can mean a compromised network/production line. There's all sorts of very real risks involved.

@RealJoseph123 7 ай бұрын

@@ConceptCentral 💀💀 i actually watch these videos lol

@Steamrick 7 ай бұрын

The thing about letting people inside to film inside is that Intel (or whoever) has to make sure to go over every bit of footage shot with a very fine comb so that nothing secret is accidentally leaked. This is fine for one or two big channels - but a much worse effort to value proposition for a whole bunch of smaller channels. So - I do get where Intel is coming from in that regard.

@DaPoets 7 ай бұрын

It was great spending time with you there and I hope to see you again soon.

@ketaminefairy 7 ай бұрын

Incredible video, seeing every piece of machinery and just thinking about the amount of engineer that went into every single thing is sooo deeply humbling

@KarenZayn 7 ай бұрын

Malaysia Mentioned! 🇲🇾 Thanks for coming to Penang

@capitalv8062 7 ай бұрын

Crazy how so much work can go into selling a $60 cpu

@Cyba_IT 7 ай бұрын

That's a lot of $60 cpu's to make this financially viable. 😁

@mplovecraft 7 ай бұрын

I have a soft spot for Intel (as I stated in my probably most upvoted comment, on the Linus Tour video). It's nice to see that there is still a lot of dedicated and very cool people working there, and I am happy they made it possible for you to tour the factory and make this video. I enjoyed it a lot!

@therick0996 7 ай бұрын

Your enthusiasm is palpable!! So nice when you can tell when a host is genuinely excited about the topic

@crashn2me105 7 ай бұрын

Hi, Quin glad you got a chance to see it in person video doesn't do it justice. I have worked at Intel's Ocotillo Campus in Chandler, Arizona it is bigger and more complex than you can imagine. Intel provides everything to their employees on site for example banking, dental, eye care, day care, gym, etc. It is a very interesting place to work. Everything there resolves around "Culture".... I know they pissed you off by inviting you there and then denying you access, working there is even stranger than you can imagine and not in a good way. I wont go into detail but your new Intel buddies can enlighten you perhaps if they care to. Like everything in life there is good and bad. A job used to be about just the work, you know show up on time do your job, treat others well. Not anymore now anyone can report you for fictitious reasons and just like that you are shown the door, with no chance to defend ones self. It is a weird place to navigate, love the tech but a lot of the blue badges (Intel employees) are straight up a nightmare. Peace

@goobiesgamegarage4517 7 ай бұрын

I used to work on the microscopes that they use. really cool stuff. working in clean rooms sucks though

@sloanNYC 7 ай бұрын

I can't imagine being on the floors with the yellow lighting!

@Cyba_IT 7 ай бұрын

Extremely well explained Quinn. I understood your description way better than Linus's! 😁Imagine how many processors they have to make to make this financially viable and every new processor design requires retooling of the manufacturing equipment although I'm sure they try and keep physical changes to a minimum to save costs. Very interesting mate, cheers

@ivannoahpena 7 ай бұрын

Hey Quinn, keep up the great work. Production quality has certainly improved since the earlier days, and I feel like the topics chosen for videos offer a different view compared to other techtubers.

@Orenji_San 7 ай бұрын

I have always been fascinated about this, thanks for the vid!

@bistoha 7 ай бұрын

I work in the Leixlip factory in Ireland, cool place to work, stressful at times but fulfilling. Parts of the process are surprisingly simple once you understand them, not all of the equipment is 200 million dollar EUV tech after all.

@JoeLion55 7 ай бұрын

Intel may be the only major logic chip maker that is fully integrated, with in-house design, process development, fab, packaging, and testing. But all of the major memory makers (Samsung, Hynix, Micron) are also fully vertically integrated.

@SimisearOfficial 7 ай бұрын

This is a fantastic video Quinn, probably one of your best

@Ikaikaalika95 7 ай бұрын

Worked at a Fab as an engineer, even after studying differential equations and quantum mechanics this stuff still feels like magic its wild.

@bendevdixon 7 ай бұрын

Got round to watching this finally. Great vid.

@Flokirie 7 ай бұрын

The algorithm did you dirty on this one, Quinn. Very entertaining video, hopefully it gets a second wind.

@YungSenRiadyBudiman 7 ай бұрын

Great video! Keep it up!

@WestUCoog 7 ай бұрын

We take computers for granted but they are crazy complex machines.

@druxfilms 7 ай бұрын

Thanks for this video. I now know that the visual artifacting on my Arc A770 card is coming from a failed chip. 😅 Im the only person on earth who had this visual artifacting and I couldn't find a single other report of this until now.

@mrlithium69 7 ай бұрын

return RMA it while its still time

@UAE224455 7 ай бұрын

Love the behind the scenes look

@robinrai4973 7 ай бұрын

pretty cool to see some of my job scaled up to intel's level

@arachano89 7 ай бұрын

Great content! Keep it up 👍🏼 😊

@EOL 7 ай бұрын

Super interesting. Great video!

@emanuelneiconi 7 ай бұрын

This was nerd central but so fascinating... So much stuff we take for granted when building and/or using our systems...

@Charles-pg6wx 7 ай бұрын

Thanks for doing this, so fascinating

@_intrepid 7 ай бұрын

very cool video, it's nuts how we take for granted the little chips in our devices

@nathanielslachter9764 7 ай бұрын

It’s still amazing that we figured out how to make this kind of stuff

@katrinabryce 7 ай бұрын

Samsung I think might be another company that is as vertically integrated as Intel? They have their own fabs, and while they do have a lot of contract work for chip design companies much like TSMC, they also make their own chips, and, unlike Intel, a lot of their own products to put those chips in.

@freebirdttv 7 ай бұрын

This is fascinating. Thank you!

@bigbingus2234 7 ай бұрын

Intel is just nuts for doing everything in house. I work at a foundry and even without the packaging and a much more basic version of electrical testing its still so complicated

@emperorcalvyne8439 7 ай бұрын

Can’t believe you came to my hometown, Penang! Of all the places in the world. 🎉

@helloukw 7 ай бұрын

Great video, watched it for the pure entertainment, because lets face it you understood more than I will ever do.

@Jhd1274 7 ай бұрын

Great video Quinn!

@vincentsalcido9605 7 ай бұрын

Now I'm curious as to how their quantum endeavors are going

@IanHobday 7 ай бұрын

Fascinating process and a very interesting video. How does this only have 21k views?? KZfaq is broken. :(

@Fanatic17 7 ай бұрын

Quinn (and his team i guess) has as always done a great job in this video. I always found these fab factory videos boring but this one is entertaining

@AllomanticSquash 7 ай бұрын

Great stuff Quinn

@ti3xL 7 ай бұрын

So does every single cpu that gets shipped out to customers go through testing? That’s insane to me

@danwat1234 5 ай бұрын

5:05 .. An SFF board, usually a business-class one has the blower-style CPU cooler but this 1 has dual GPU slots!

@emmabentley7945 7 ай бұрын

It would be amazing to see the process for Apples ARM processors, awesome video Quinn ❤

@stevensonjsh 7 ай бұрын

Honestly it would be nearly identical at this level. The differences are in the microscopic features made on each die.

@Chronos5618 7 ай бұрын

Here is a comment for the algorithm gods. Awesome video, deserves way more traction than it's getting.

@GarryMah85 7 ай бұрын

I work in a German semiconductor manufacturing company (in a plant located in this same country) and in my 8 years here, i’ve only once manage to visit the final testing area. I’ve yet to get the chance to visit the assembly area😢. It is very, very difficult to get the chance to visit these production area as they consider it an interruption to the production area. Auditors visit alone give them enough of a headache.

@TheCanyonhopper 7 ай бұрын

Infineon AG?

@iyke8913 7 ай бұрын

Great video! Bravo!

@nicholasng6357 7 ай бұрын

Hope that while you were at Penang, you managed to dig into the delicious hawker food that Penang had to offer.

@tetra1974 7 ай бұрын

Sweet I hope you enjoyed Malaysia food while your there :)

@DctrGizmo 7 ай бұрын

Intel fabs always impress me with how complex and autonomous their operation is!

@thelunchbox420x 7 ай бұрын

And other fabs don't?

@music_city_mav 7 ай бұрын

First off Quinn, fantastic Vid, lave ya your amazing and if you quit YT I’ll probably never come on here again. But I just read your title over 2 days after I finished the video. Anyways what I’m getting at is that your thumbnails are so good to the point where I click on your vids because of them you could name the title anything

@GingerguyFromDk 7 ай бұрын

Amazing video!

@janves 7 ай бұрын

Great video! Everybody don’t forget to like this stuff :)

@funnyent 7 ай бұрын

very cool - thanks for sharing

@Zachrdoodle 7 ай бұрын

Man, I love these videos

@davidsherman3462 7 ай бұрын

Very informative!

@EthanLeitch 7 ай бұрын

This is amazing, feels like real life science fiction

@dmug 7 ай бұрын

It’s interesting that Intel churning out blistering CPUs (yes, they do run hot but they they’re very fast). I’m not sure if the shake ups , Apple leaving them or what, but at least in the desktop space they’re competitive. As a Portlander I’ve known more than a few people who work there, so I’m always rooting for them.

@TalesOfWar 7 ай бұрын

They're only (and just) competitive by throwing almost twice the power at the problem compared to the AMD equivalent. It's like saying you have a faster car, by just putting in a bigger engine, yet still barely beat the car with the smaller, less fuel thirsty engine. They really are suffering from poor management and lack of R&D investment for those few years before they got rid of their old CEO. A lot of brain drain too as engineers left or were made redundant.

@tonynettleton3135 7 ай бұрын

Maybe Intel is onto something. Have you considered a pivot to lifestyle vlogging?

@tigerugby1996 7 ай бұрын

Very interesting stuff!

@impointr 7 ай бұрын

As shaky as their CPU releases have been for the past few years, it's always impressive to witness how these chips even come to be. Even though they're pretty late in terms of performance to their competitors (especially in gaming segments) they still make impressive hardware and there are really pationate people behind all these incredible parts that fit in the palm of your hands. What's the next step now Quinn, visiting TSMC? 😏

@snazzy 7 ай бұрын

Based on the view count of this video so far, no 😂

@impointr 7 ай бұрын

@@snazzy Aw c'mon a man can dream right 😭

@lidorori 7 ай бұрын

Amazing video, I still dont get y i dont get notifications for your videos.. i need to look fir them every time..

@SaminhL 7 ай бұрын

Snazzy with the quality content ❤

@ianmeechan2040 6 ай бұрын

Best tech explanation ever "Bing Boom Bing Boom Bing". Love the channel.

@lucerocj 7 ай бұрын

I like that some of their Windows operating systems need activating...

@JackSmith-fb7je 7 ай бұрын

Work in Electronic Manufacturing - love to see stuff like this. Good stuff Quinn!

@CrackerSnifferBurger 7 ай бұрын

they should handle media better on both sides - those mediocre 14th gen chips need all the positive press they can get.

@HanabiiiUwU 7 ай бұрын

You're such a good presenter 🥰

@TheAppleExperence 7 ай бұрын

Comment for engagement idk why your videos aren’t preforming they are pretty amazing.

@sloanNYC 7 ай бұрын

Why invite people to not go in? That's pretty weird. The science and efforts that go into making a chip really are insane. Billions of transistors in a couple of square inches? It's magical.

@GachaLOTTIExox 7 ай бұрын

Happy noises are being made

@DRMCC0Y 7 ай бұрын

KZfaq REFUSED to promote this video to me, the only way I knew it existed was via twitter.

@deurkl 7 ай бұрын

Hey Quinn could you make more tech reviews? I feel those are your most interesting videos ❤

@stevenjev 7 ай бұрын

Great video

@alexisrojas3584 7 ай бұрын

This video is amazing

@RomPereira 7 ай бұрын

Freaking nice explanation dude. The blocked full visit thing was Intel loss, trust me.

@invisi1407 6 ай бұрын

This is the video that all the other channels should've had too. Wow. Amazing content! Thanks for being pissed at Intel, it seemed to pay off!

@Philip-yo1wb 7 ай бұрын

You should come to Austria and say hello to the company "EV Group" 😉 They are making the machines which are producing chips.

@ntelas46 7 ай бұрын

Very cool!

@padcontrol1 7 ай бұрын

Just dropping in to help a bro. This video should have WAY more views.

@mrlithium69 7 ай бұрын

@snazzy you're gonna have to make shorts out of this. make one for each of the chapters. zoomers cant wait through 15 minutes of a powerpoint presentation. not even to learn or familiarize with the cool industrial tech that builds all their stuff. No offense

@TheCanyonhopper 7 ай бұрын

My cousin works there after her spell at Sony Malaysia.

@Clan_del_Bosco 7 ай бұрын

Cool video

@ThunderAndCypher 7 ай бұрын

Good video

7 ай бұрын

Next: How apple silicone is made

@adriaanserrao2016 7 ай бұрын

This is a very Intel thing. They don't give a f about anyone just another huge corporation (like apple) that wants to look good infront of the right people to look good and grow their stocks. (BTW looking at a MacBook Pro 14 M3 (if it's released this year) just because of the battery life so not a complete apple hator)

@TalesOfWar 7 ай бұрын

That's the default stance for practically every company, regardless of size. It's just more obvious when you get to the bigger players.