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Intel Nehalem (Core i7) Processor Wafer
Posted: Wed Aug 20, 2008 7:32 am
by Apoptosis
Guess what I was just holding in my hands...
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Yes, that is a real production wafer of Intel Nehalem, now called Intel Core i7, dies that would have been loved to be cut and packaged for my PC. Anyone with some free time want to count how many cores are there per wafer? Remember don't count the ones on the edge that ran off.
Here is a closer look for those that want to actually see each of the four cores per die.
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Call me an Uber geek, but that is sexy!
Re: Intel Nehalem (Core i7) Processor Wafer
Posted: Wed Aug 20, 2008 8:43 am
by dicecca112
[Homer Voice] NERD![/Homer Voice]
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Re: Intel Nehalem (Core i7) Processor Wafer
Posted: Wed Aug 20, 2008 9:16 am
by skier
that's how they make the die's? just a big wafer of a bunch of them, then cut it up?
if it is, it seems so archaic
Re: Intel Nehalem (Core i7) Processor Wafer
Posted: Wed Aug 20, 2008 9:30 am
by Methious
How would you like to have that mounted on the wall? Make one heck of a conversation piece.
Re: Intel Nehalem (Core i7) Processor Wafer
Posted: Wed Aug 20, 2008 9:31 am
by Alathald
Looks like around 220 dies per wafer...
What was the approximate diameter of that wafer?
Re: Intel Nehalem (Core i7) Processor Wafer
Posted: Wed Aug 20, 2008 9:33 am
by bubba
Did you smash it like the guys from OCC did with one of the Core2 wafers
Jump to 3:45
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MkJBB2aPciw
Re: Intel Nehalem (Core i7) Processor Wafer
Posted: Wed Aug 20, 2008 10:31 am
by DMB2000uk
Why did they even let him in the factory, he doesn't have a clue what he did.
They should have billed him for it (even if it was a dud wafer)
How old was he supposed to be?
Dan
Re: Intel Nehalem (Core i7) Processor Wafer
Posted: Wed Aug 20, 2008 3:15 pm
by vicaphit
PRETTY!
I don't really understand what I am looking at, but it looks really cool. Those are some really small cores.
Re: Intel Nehalem (Core i7) Processor Wafer
Posted: Wed Aug 20, 2008 8:05 pm
by Zertz
Alathald wrote:What was the approximate diameter of that wafer?
300mm
vicaphit wrote:PRETTY!I don't really understand what I am looking at, but it looks really cool. Those are some really small cores.
Alot of processors
skierkid450 wrote:that's how they make the die's? just a big wafer of a bunch of them, then cut it up?
if it is, it seems so archaic
Exactly!