12 Mar
2012
12 Mar
'12
10:18 a.m.
If you go to epay and put in "intel development confidential" (minus the
quotes) you will get a glimpse into Intel's development methods. Looks
like bondout versions of their chips with everything on the chip run out
to pads for testing.
The seller is in Israel, where a lot of the design work is done for Intel.
Jim
12 Mar
12 Mar
10:31 a.m.
On Mar 12, 2012, at 10:18 AM, jim s wrote:
If you go to epay and put in "intel development
confidential" (minus the quotes) you will get a glimpse into Intel's development
methods. Looks like bondout versions of their chips with everything on the chip run out
to pads for testing.
Hey, that's pretty spiffy. Hell of a breakout board.
I recall when a distributor was trying to sell us on using a Core2 Quad for some of the
embedded work we do (we were considering, and eventually used, a PowerPC because you
don't need a Core2 Quad to run a router). Thing was ~100W on a ~1V power supply,
which meant the datasheet actually said the Vdd rail required about 100A. Raised a few
eyebrows. Of course, there was no reason for us to use it at all, but the sales
"engineer" at the distributor didn't quite see it that way.
Not quite classic computing, but I thought it was worth mentioning that when my computing
takes 100W, I at least have a whole rack of cards to show for it. :-)
- Dave
7:25 p.m.
--- On Mon, 3/12/12, jim s <jws at jwsss.com> wrote:
Subject: Intel development process
These look like wafer-probe cards. They are used in laboratory and production chip
testers to interface to unpackaged wafers. We had
a tester in-house at a former employer, and the probe cards looked very
similar to these. Google for "wafer probe card".
--Bill
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