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Color slide of workers monitoring furnace in which a layer of silicon dioxide is added to wafers. "Guns" read bar codes on the wafer boats.
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Color slide of an Intel Fab technician using a high powered microscope to inspect 8-inch wafers in the production line.
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Color slide of an Intel Fab technician monitoring an 8-inch wafer on an automated manufacturing line.
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Color photograph of a basic container housing 300mm wafers in the automated fabrication (Fab) process.
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Color photograph of Intel technicians monitoring the wafers' progress through the 300mm fabrication plant, (Fab) using automated measurement tools and strict quality standards.
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Color photograph of a technician checking wafers processing in a vertical diffusion furnace, one of the many tools through which wafers must pass as they go through the hundreds of steps that make up the manufacturing process.
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Color photograph of Intel technician monitoring wafers in an automated wet etch tool. The process cleans the wafers of any excess process chemicals or contamination.
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Color photograph of a clean room floor. Clean air continuously flows from every pore of the ceiling and through the holes in the floor of the fabrication (Fab) plant. All of the air in the clean room or fab is replaced several times every minute.
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Color photograph of an automated wafer movement system within an Intel 300mm wafer fabrication (Fab) plant.
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Color photograph of an Intel technician holding a 300mm wafer. Each square on the wafer is called a "die" and each microprocessor will eventually become the "brain" of a PC system.
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Enlarged color photograph of the Intel® Pentium® 4 processor. The processor debuted with 42 million transistors and circuit lines of 0.18 microns, 29 years after Intel's first microprocessor. The Intel® Pentium® 4 processor's initial speed was...
