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Originally Posted by Timetravel_0
I now work for Intel in the cleanroom making CPU's and it amazes me at how much everything costs. The machine I'm responsible for maintaining and fixing costs $994,000 and there's about 40 of them at my fab alone. In the other machine I work on which puts a thin layer ultra pure gold on the back of the chips has these gold "targets," as we call them, that have to be changed out about once a month and each target costs about $200,000 each. But, each wafer (a 12 inch diameter disc with the cpu's on it before it's cut up into squares) we put out the door has the potential to earn over a million dollars and last week we shipped 10,000 wafers from our fab alone.
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Small world...
Since you work in a cleaning room for Intel, chances are my dad made some of those trays used in the semi conductor.
Nothing bad to say except that my dad busted his ass making and designing those. He made good money too. The economies changed and the company he used to work for was bought, and recently shut down, but my dad left that buisness before that happened.
My dad also used to help build semi conducters by hand (welding, ect..) I was with him several times during the day or late at night checking on stuff and what not. I also gave some input on the trays.
And yeah, those things do cost a lot of money.
We have no financial problems if you were wondering, we're fine.