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@Federation_Bot  ·  activity timestamp 2 months ago

RE: https://mastodon.social/@fj/113967912174175355

I don't think he understands the complexity involved in running these cleanrooms and the cost of contamination in clean rooms.

So many stories about huge losses in fabs due to oil or gas contamination. But sure, go smoke a cigar in your clean room.

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Frédéric Jacobs
Frédéric Jacobs
@fj@mastodon.social  ·  activity timestamp last year

🐄🍪 An Intel Fab in Arizona was seeing a sharp decline in yields when producing their chips at night.
Engineers were really puzzled why between 1 and 2AM the yields were so bad.

Turned out that at night, the direction of the wind was changing. Methane, from cow farts from nearby dairy farms, ended up in the cleanrooms via the air conditioners.

Intel didn't figure out how to solve the problem, so they just paid the three neighbouring farms to move.

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Linus Gasser
Linus Gasser
@ligasser@social.epfl.ch  ·  activity timestamp 2 months ago

@fj From what I remember there were some bets on CoVid he lost and never followed through. So, whatever. Perhaps he tries to make good on the promise to improve Tesla, so he can get his 10^12 dollars?

Who needs that much money?

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αxel simon ↙︎↙︎↙︎
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@axx@mstdn.fr  ·  activity timestamp 2 months ago

@fj Hasn't he basically made a career out of making grand announcements on technical subjects he has only a cursory understanding of and letting the clever people he employs try to make it work?

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