i picked this information up when i worked at
a SGS/Thomson Fab that operates as a foundry and
legally makes fake pentium chips for cyrix or
some other company that sells fake pentium chips.
lets go into the fab (fab a place where chips are made in clean rooms)
here are the things we do before entering the clean room.
one word the bunny suits DONT look like the BUNNY suits
in the INTEL commericals which look like something someone
from outer space would wear. the bunny suits look like
medical wear and they cover your body from head to toe.
- in dirty world put bonnet over hair, and small bonnet for facial hair
- enter a locked air shower where all the dirt is blown off you for about 30 seconds
- now you enter the dressing room. but were not in the clean room yet
- put on small mask that covers nose and mouth
- put 2nd large mask that covers most of face
- put on hood that covers head
- put on a top jacket that hood flows into
- put on pants which top jacket flows into
- put on boots which the pants flow into.
the boots go over your regular shoes
- at this point any dirt that falls off your body or clothes will
end up in your boots as its final resting point. not the clean room.
- any air you breath through your nose or mouth goes into a mask.
- now you have to wash your hands to remove any dirt
- now you put your rubber gloves on.
- last if you have any things from the outside world that have to
go into the clean room you rub them down with deionized water.
for me this is my lap top computer.
- now one final trip thru two sets of doors and your in the clean room
useless information about chips - 486, pentium, and 686 clones
- 200 486 chips fit on a 8 inch wafer
- 25 wafers fit into a cassette, which are used in fabs to more the wafers around
- 5000 486 chips are contained on those 25 wafers in the cassette
- 486 chips are about as big as a finger nail almost 1/2 inch on each side
- 586 chips or pentium chips are about 3/4 inches on each side
- 686 chips chips are about 1 inche on each side
useless info on pentium's
it takes about a month of time to produce a pentium chip from scratch.
each wafer is processed 100's of times in the equipment
used to put chemicals on the
wafer, and the equipment to removed chemicals from the wafer.
thru the life cycle of say a pentium chip or any other chip
the area that is required to make chip generally gets smaller
and smaller over time. that is because to maximize profits
the fab trys to produce as many chips on a wafer as it can.
and reducing the size of the chip allows more chips to be
produced on a wafer.
hydrofloric acid BAD stuff
hydrofloric acid is really nasty stuff
it looks like water.
it smells like water.
it doesnt burn very much.
but if you get it on your skin it
will seep thru to your bones where
it will attack the calcium in the
bones and it will cause you much
pain and damage.
for any chemical that spills on you
wash it off with cold water for
15 minutes.
cover your skin and areas of your body that were exposed
to the hydrofloric acid with
calcium glucimate jell which will
allow the hydrofloric acid to attack
the calcium in the jell instead of
the calcium in your bones.
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