From Sand to Silicon: The Making of a Microchip | Intel
Ever wonder what’s under the hood of your favorite electronic device? The transistor is the engine that powers every Intel processor. To build a modern computer chip, our engineers place billions of these tiny switches into an area no larger than a fingernail. It’s one of mankind’s most complex feats, and it’s happening every day across Intel’s global network of chip manufacturing facilities. Check out this video to learn more about how we turn sand into the silicon chips that power the world.
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From Sand to Silicon: The Making of a Microchip | Intel
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No matter who's winning or losing, Intel or AMD, they have played huge part in the history of human life. I respect them!
Completely agree with you bro..
Intel invented the CPU! i just wish they were still the innovators they once were
Agreed, without Intel there wouldn’t be competition and that would mean there wouldn’t be such great chips to date.
And winning doesn’t necessarily benefit the consumer, a healthy competition encourages companies to continuously innovate.
That's the comment I was looking for :)
I like Intel's audacity to allow comments.
Gotta admit. They have stones to allow comments.
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रोहित हिल ok indian
@@trolltube874 sand is stone dust
Lol
I have a degree in IT and i'm still amazed at all of this. It truly is the most incredible thing to me. My mind is just blown that humans somehow figured out how to make an inanimate object that is so tiny and sophisticated calculate and understand our instructions. It is absolutely incredibly mindblowing.
Magic is real and it's called science. CPU is literally a rock that we tricked into thinking. No matter how muck you know about how it works - it's still magic.
There are many patterns, of many kinds, hiding in nature. Us humans are the discoverers. This is truly incredible.
Legos
im guessing a degree in electrical engineering would be more helpful in understanding this. Either way, its absolutely incredible what humans are doing.
@@esmith2k2 a degree isn't enough to explain how we got down to the NANOMETERS in making these transistors and cramming BILLIONS of transistors inside small enclosures, then wrote machine code that executes at millions of hertz every second and somehow orchestrates magically into something we humans can interact with and understand...
"just remember that a CPU is literally a rock that we tricked into thinking." what an unreal feat!
AMD v intel can go all day long, but still the capabilities and design of microprocessors still blows my mind.
If you want the capabilities and design to improve, support both companies. I have a ryzen on my gaming rig and an intel laptop. This is the only way for these companies to compete
Pajeets wont get it
Second still is unnecessary
@@tavensektor3362 haha loser
competition is great for innovation and keeping prices low.
1:10 We all just love graphs with an unlabled y-axis.
moores law concept - transistors count
@@maroskuzmiak8351 Which is not labelled. That's his point lmao. There are no solid numbers in that graph except the timespan.
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The fact that moores law reaches its physically barrier is also ignored
lmao
It's almost beyond comprehension that the human mind could conceive and build these type of microchips. The complexity is mind blowing. It's one of humankinds greatest achievements that many people just take for granted, but they really shouldn't.
every single discovery in science is cosidered a greatest achievement , cuz science is like a chain or a pyramide , every piece is essentiel cuz to get to the end you need all the pieces that was put before , the science that we have now is the combinaison of lot of small discoveries and innovation
Wow, this is how vintage 14 nanometer processors are made. Fascinating
I knew this comment would be here LMAO.
Lol
trust me you dont want to see a 7 nm intel processor, that would be an industrial revolution lol
u made me lol :)
@@eduuklee9453 That is exactly why we DO want to see it. Its impressive that intels 14nm platform has survived this long but it is showing its age. overheating cores and lackluster performance is plagueing intels new 14nm chips while AMD can run cool as a cucumber despite having more cores. Intel needs to innovate or they are going to hit a brickwall with 14nm
The board when I close my eyes in math class: 3:16 The board in math when I open my eyes: 3:22
Class attention go brrrre
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Nice one
How only 202 like very underrated.
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My brain can’t comprehend this. This is just incredible.
They extract the silicon out of (quartz) sand by melting it to 2000°C. Then they have machines for each process that do everything for them. Each group of engineers / scientists only know stuff about their chain in the production process because the whole process is so very complex.
@@Scrungge ccg
@@Scrungge q
Also no CPU is the same some come with higher clock speeds or dead cores. I3, I5,I7 and so on are all the same processor just with different clock speeds or core count...think of it if you design a cpu with six cores but two are dead leaving you with 4 cores, why throw it away ? Just brand it as an i3 and sale it cheaper. It's also referred to as the silicone lottery. Pretty cool that CPUs have there own personality.
All we need is sand!! Some guy in the Middle East- “I got you fam”
This is actually really cool, no matter who is winning the "CPU war" it is really cool to see how they are made, and it is nice that Intel made this video.
Thanks to Intel and AMD for everything you have done. The world would be a lot different without you!
And 14nm++++++++++++++++
@@laylajs don't forget overpricing along with 14+++++++infinity
Also credits to nvidia for making a great Graphics Card
No one even gonna mention TSMC
@@nabeelabyazr911 (expensive)
"Limitless potential" How about 7nm?
They said Limitless which enables them to Manufacture more of "+" of 14nm +++²
@@ClayWheeler to the power of 10
Ooopss. You don't say it.
Let’s raise the bet. How about 1 nm? Royal flush!
@@ElTorro9449 Intel will be like, "let's go for a 100 year vacation".
The video graphics, the man's voice, the background music, I'm a AMD user and fan but couldn't stop being super impressed every single second.
Intel in 2020: Gamers Nexus in 2021: "Waste of Sand"
@N Diesal You don’t need to introduce yourself to me.
@N Diesal Well I don’t understand your gibberish, you drunk?
@@quadrodcc667 dude you are awesome
wtf happened here
@@quadrodcc667 Can’t believe he’s still alive after that burn
All that video and not a single mention of IC layout designers. We're the ones who design everything.
Video is more focused on the fab production process, not RD
@@V3RM1LI0N Intel: "What's R&D?"
Super intrigued by you guy's field and profession. Never seen a class or degree for it. Amazing what you lot accomplish though, truly amazing.
KHR0M3K0R4N research and development
@@DurzoBlunts Google VLSI design and Electrical and Electronics engineering degrees
I comprehend nothing, must be so complicated subject, on a very tiny matter
And that's just one component of a much larger, more involved process. No single person could design a modern processor. It takes thousands of talented engineers, physicists, and researchers to create a modern processor on this scale.
It's in simple language that the future of mp will gonna like each atom as transistors .a
@darknightoftroy nice comment
is this a pun? if so, then lmao!
@darknightoftroy Wow this motivates me to keep studying electronic engineering. I'm having problems digesting all the lessons in my IC fab lessons. I thought I was just that dumb.
Intel logo music gives me nostalgia and I respect them for keeping the music same
The more I learn about computer science the more it blows my mind that it actually works.
as much as i study about it, i see that i really dont know nothing about this
its hardware so not really computer science but rather electrical engineering
this things looks like some fkin magic to me wont be surprised if some aliens just come with shiny crystal cube and can store all the knowledge of the universe because we already half way there
We've underappreciated the amazing feats technology has attained. This video feels like a video game cutscene.
take a moment to realize that humanity started in the woods somewhere, and now look at us with our fancy technology. crazy right?
The transistor technological leap that occurred in the 80's was not the result of only human intelligence. There is no other technological field in human science that even comes close to the level of development there is in the silicon semiconductor. Even biotechnology is crude in comparison.
@@Natangz we went from an 11 second powered flight to the first jet vs jet aircraft combat in only 40 years. It’s possible
@@Natangz
@@Natangz every science fields boomed with discovery of computers , cuz now we can have the data easly stocked and calculated and rearanged + performing hiiiigh presise thing , everything became 100% easier
Video: Intel was the first to manufacture 3-d transistors called FinFETs. AMD: They are also the first to manufacture 14nm++++++++++++++++++ CPU's.
AMD is also the 1st to manufacture 7 nm desktop processors
@@RamakrishnanSRM actually it's tsmc but yeah amd is the first to produce 7nm desktop cpu and also I was joking in the comment it's an Intel 14nm joke
@@RamakrishnanSRM missed the joke buddy
Might wanna add more +
@@RamakrishnanSRM Breaking News! AMD is fabless and don't own the techniques to fabricate 7/5nm!
0:17 lmao theres a amd stock cooler in the pc
Hahah
XD
Yeah only coolers with orange leds are amd stock coolers..thanks genius
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How long amd takes to build its processor?
Man Intel is still innovating and at the cutting edge. My company, that builds fabricated circuits, that Intel uses to test each of its chips, is constantly trying to keep up with Intel just so we can stay the primary contractor. Engineers have all entire seminars and meetings, PowerPoint presentation and trial and error experimentation to try to figure out how to make something that and test the “new” thing. Right now Intel is about to introduce a new type of EMIB and so my company has engineering runs going through the fab everyday trying to nail it down.
*Crushes a Cheez-It* "We are literally rearranging atoms"
LMAO
Me- Wow this is so cool. Also me- Sucking at my "semiconductors and devices" course.
what institute you studying at?
Thats an easy chap i think
@@mikeshane2048 we are tought that in our 12 standard.
Me too.
Relatable bruh 😭😭
thanks intel for actually having stock.
Lol true.....a 3400g costs 400$ from being 80$
Without Intel And AMD, games wouldn't be alive , a salute to those unsung heros
Without James Clerk Maxwell, neither AMD nor Intel... nor a basic understanding of anything that has to do with electromagnetism would be known. A salute to an unsung hero
@@Deeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeez Maxwell is really genius, other scientists are Genius too, I salute them.
00:48 thank you for this. I love when they give our brain these kind of visualization
That hair looks gross lmao
00:16 the pc they showcase has an AMD stock cooler or a lookalike... kek
@@EntropyConcept sus
@@kingeling yes
Plot twist: The whole video was edited on a AMD rig Edit: there’s a war going down in the replies
*Xeon Edit: I didn't know it was going that far. When I commented on this it was the least liked. Now it's a top comment thanks to the war!
That'd be considered as a Traitor to Intel. One dare uses AMD on Intel's lab or Industry, whoever that user is gone for good.
@@notsogood2576 That's why I said Xeon. End-user choice can be anything they want. But in an Enterprise environment they are bound to use their own solutions.
@@abm_prottoy you didn't get the joke
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its crazy to think how important just this part of technology is and will prove to be
It is mindblowing to understand why some humans are so much more intelligent and advanced than the rest of humanity and can envision and create such complicated devices. The animation is also dope and beautiful. Love and respect to all the intelligent, advanced and creative human beings who have made life so much fun and exciting for the entire humanity. Thanks for your innovations and sacrifices. We are all proud of you.
Took 2023 years not surprised
I feel like a rock compared to these briliant Intel engineers who design and produce these insanely complex processors.
OK, now I know how to make my own CPU, thanks. *proceed to make 1cm CPU
youd be a genius to make a 1 meter cpu
I truly appreciate Intel taking the time remake this 10 year old video.
Glad to hear the intel tune at the end it literally made me smile Thanks intel for making our childhood and future awesome
Chilhood only
@@Adkatka Future too
The amount of respect I have for my 4th gen CPU after watching this video, I can't-
Then, everything changed when the Ryzen nation attacked.
haz 銀雨 YESS I was thinking the exact same thing
ATLA fan
@@praveshnagayach612 Sorry, I'm gonna have to dissapoint you on the 4 elemental level...I actually haven't watched ATLA. But I do know a lot of their memes, that counts, right?
@@haz2077 😅
Gintoki
They are actually powered by competition. Thanks AMD and Intel
Incredible stuff. Can't imagine the world of innovation without Intel. Hats off to all the Intel resources across the Globe 👍👍
Just mind blowing and awesome....I love watching stuff like this and then realising while I am typing this, well, you know the rest. #respect to all the people ever involved in pushing this technology, no matter the company or individual !!
When they said “limitless potential”. They meant they can make 14+++++ till eternal pluses.
You mean 14nm++++++++++++++++++++++61918498+8+8+5+55+2658+55-588558886659+95=58558-8848+8+8+88+++++++
13.9 nm
And everything has changed after ryzen came
Celsius,Farenheit and kelvin:AYAYAYA
Love you comment my brother
@@ZaHandle well yeah, nowadays one needs to attach a refrigerator to cool an intel chip, looks like the old amd is the new intel
@@jasonaalab that's not true. i think you never used intel. and also intel has capability to bear over heat.
@@VibezVideo "cheap" 🤣🤣
kudos who did the graphic design/animated this and the informer script director & narrator to showcase us this feat of human marvel tech. my new laptop of microsoft surface 4 has Intel processors and can't help but wonder what each component's importance and understand what they do and what is made of is much compact & fast than the apollo shuttle's computers decades ago. still i hope we improve ongoing electronic recycling/waste management, more investment on industries to western countries/domestic chip making and pray safety, wage & better standards of living to those workers who built countless of our chips in dangerous conditions acquiring/refining it.
I love how half the video was just "here at intel, we [insert generic corporate mission statement]"
OK, I know how my ryzen is made now!
What ur setup bro
This person brain's 100% a Snapdragon 420
@@notsogood2576 running java software
@@notsogood2576 and yours is pentium 4 for not getting the joke
@@sabagelashvili374 more like a celeron
Did you just mention Moore's law??? Lmao
Yeah It Did But havenot done it Practically
@@Makhwax He wasn't the founder but The CO- Founder
Moore's Law is Dead
I love the part where they say "And if you buy AMD, you're dead to us"
@Aditya Panicker -0:00
Lmao
Intel, driving innovation one + at a time.
Ayyyyy
This whole comment section is like Intel asking for a r/roastme
The best of this section is users talking about AMD 😂
Hate to Intel is enormous Who wouldn't hate a overpriced CPU
@nune nemaveze cpu usage is more important for me imo
@@reeeec If it wasnt for Intel we wouldnt have such powerful cpu and AMD would not exist
@@reeeec overprice? I don't hate amd but in my country amd is overpriced
No matter which side you are we have to appreciate that Intel and AMD both are taking human lives to next Level
This is an unbelievable journey of mankind from the discovery of fire to rearranging an atom
The last making processor video was 8 years ago, I loved that. I also liked this video, the people can rly understand how it is made, thx for sharing
AMD is spreading faster than Covid-19 here in the comment section 😂
Better things have better respect and values ya know?
ha ha ha funny
i dont see much probably they deleted some
conquer the world!
@@iDoe84 the wooooorld!
Wow so this is how a Plumbus is made. Fascinating!
I'm surprised by the fact that how this is done at such a microscopic level. Such a (physically) small processor contains billions of transistors?? Amazingly insane!
yeah thechnology evolution is in exponentiel growth , the more time goes the fastest new technology apears
People say there's no hope for humanity, but I look at the feats we've pulled off thus far and realize our possibilities are endless. People are awesome
I realized that the people that say this kind of comments (there’s no hope for humanity) are the ones who know the less. The more you know and understand about tevhnology, the more it will amaze you. And that, is a proof that we truly did something great. And we are constantly making it better and better.
@@ateyaba7253 exactly people say humans are a mistake, but i'd say we have managed to make positive situations out of all the negatives. like look i'm literally typing this through the same processor that intel has made, with billions of transisors, and as i press enter this message will wirelessly go to my router, then modem, then be saved in google servers within a few milliseconds. that's amazing
14nm++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++
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+ only 1
What's that's mean?
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The best video about chips, very beautiful colors, very beautiful.
yet yall cant make a website
woah a 130k dead channel fortnite youtuber verified with 2 likes and gets 130 views average wow
Red was the imposter I keep finding them on videos like these, youtubers with 150k+ subscribers and verified but they seem like a tiny channel
Red was the imposter and his channel only has 2.6k subscribers I think he either used subscriber bots or just private’s eveything
If so why dont you make a better one for them
@@HueHanaejistla I deleted not subbots
Amazing video but I'm changing to 3rd Gen Threadripper...
AMD is fine if you don't need single core performance.
@@1pcfred TR has higher single core than ANY Intel CPU.
@@jonnypena7651 does it?
@@1pcfred comparing to the server and production side of intel, yea! The only need to buy a xeon this generation is if you have a specific software that only suports it
@@firstbits650 sounds specific to me. I'm not much for servers myself. I only have a file server. It runs on an old i3. In general I favor Intel over AMD. I haven't run any AMD hardware in over 10 years. As far as I'm concerned right now it is all junk. The whole industry has fallen off a cliff. I don't see it being sorted for years yet either. So if AMD wants to be king of the garbage heap presently then they can have the crown.
Upgraded version of what was created many years ago *Noice*
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Inspirational ...im learning about electronics , not at official school , but it its cool to see new movie about CPU ...Well Made.
AMD fan here, btw the 14nm lake is drying up.
Intel
Just imagine how great is intel they can still squeeze out every single bit of performance being on such old process node, they are still not dead AMD is gonna enjoy the market value until intel comes to 10nm/7nm/5nm etc
@@shubhamjoshi7213 impressive, however not the direction they should keep going to. 14nm can only do so much if Intel still can't figure out how to get the 10nm fabs ready, since right now their CPUs are literally taking double the power to barely match AMD's performance (in other words, only half of AMD's power efficiency).
@@shubhamjoshi7213 i like your profile pic
@@mauricetejada6553 its made for pubgm profile pic 😅 because on fb id all the reletives are connected
"The world is producing data on an unprecedented rate .faster than our ability to understand and analyze it" MORE LIKE " AMD is producing CPUs on an unprecedented rate. Faster than our ability to understand and analyze it "
AMD sold their last fab 14 years ago. So they're not making anything today. And haven't for quite some time now. They're not likely to anytime soon considering the cost of a new fab these days either.
@Francis why?
@@1pcfred because then they wouldn't have the shortages that they have now.
@@1pcfred This pandemic has taught us how risky and short-sighted it is two offshore all production to a small and vulnerable part of southern China.
@@MildMisanthropeMaybeMassive my borsig, can handle itt
This is so incredible, that we are at such a level of advanced technology. One could say that we have Ryzen to unlimited potential.
Bazinga.
Sat here with a new pc wondering how the intel processor was made. WOW! And thankyou. What these companies have done for the advancment of the human race is phenomenal. Thank you.
Showing the Moose's law in this video is such a good laugh 😂
Moore's law brought to you by intel the company that killed it
Very cool. But what's more interesting to me is the collective intelligence and efforts of each of us that create enough incentive for another organism (Intel) and this whole collaboration that produces such a thing in the end. You and I are part of this too.
One of the best infobgraphics and infomercials ever.
Let's put all of this Intel vs AMD stuff aside for a second and appreciate this video! It's actually really well done, short and informative, I liked it
“Doubling Transistor Density in every new generation of processors” Yeah, as if they didn’t stay with 14nm for 3 generations
Bruh theyre still on 14nm and just started making 10nm hahahaah
Just because they stay on the same manufacturing process doesn't mean the transistor density stays the same.
@@camulodunon The Transistor density is still the Same.
3 generations? Its 5 generations.
@@premashetty6469 Not correct, as the dude who previously replied to you said, AMD has nearly double the transistor density.
about time this video was updated from a decade ago
This process looks almost like magic. Kudos to you for making this miracle true Written this message by using Intel CPU
Intel: uploads a video All amd users: you have chosen war
We can't even imagine world without you 😍😍
Anything happens.. Intel will be in my heart forever..
Intel: 'Write this down, write this down!' 'Oh wait, this is our video.'
😂😂😂
The power of semiconductors!! 💕
More time was spent on praising the Intel than actually explaining the subject matter in detail.
It's video made by Intel, what did you expect?
This is really mind blowing , a great video to educate those people who say ki processor chips mae hota hi kya h 🙌🙌
Nice video shot, thanks for sharing with us, well done :)
Thank you Intel. Your client CPUs and Optane SSDs are amazing products!
I have been using i3 since 2010 it's awesome
Physical design engineer here. Loved the demonstration.. even newbies can understand
4:33 omg I like the moment when the jingle begins
Powering the world, with performance gains of 1% each generation.
Awesome video! I hope to see improvements with the IHS someday, and better thermal compound.
Interesting, recently gave a presentation on transistors. Amazing.
Thanks to this video I was able to build my own intel chip in my garage. Now I don't need to buy them from the store anymore. Thanks Intel!
3:41 So when AMD does it you call it gluing CPUs together You do it and it's 2D and 3D packaging technology.
Irony...
Not like Intel haven't "glued" CPUs together before, remember the Q6600?
@@minbcraft or the Pentium D
HATS OFF TO YOUR TECHNOLOGY i am truly inspired
4:32 love this
An amazing creation !!!
Love you guys
Amazing
This is awesome.
Wow More than I expected So much more than I could have imagined ❤️❤️❤️❤️❤️❤️❤️❤️❤️❤️❤️❤️
"doubled transistor density with every new generation" Fake News! Intel is basically selling 14nm skylake CPU's scince 4 generations xD
David you get to see the scatter plot flatten at the end haha
They said transistors Intel still has more transistors density than AMD. Intel is doing the same thing what AMD did before ryzen Their cpu runs hot and at higher clock speed I am not a fan boy
Skylake is architecture. Same architecture can be used for fitting more transistors.
@@premashetty6469 The Transistor density is lower then AMD, TSMC's 7nm HPC Process has 66.7MTr/mm2, Intels 14nm++ has 37.5MTr/mm2
I hope one day in your life you will get smart and notice that intels 14nm is actually nearlly as small as amds 7nm but you probally will never actually be smart so just shut up please