I made my own RAM! - Micron Factory Tour

Linus doesn't travel for projects often anymore, but when Micron invited him out to their 200,000 sq. ft. facilities in Boise, Idaho to make his own RAM from scratch, he knew that he had to go. Making RAM isn't easy, so sit back and take a look at how RAM goes from raw components to powering the device you're watching this on!

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MUSIC CREDIT
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Intro: Laszlo - Supernova

Outro: Approaching Nirvana - Sugar High

CHAPTERS
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0:00 Intro
1:20 Fab 4 tour
3:40 Wafer probing
5:18 Manual probing
7:59 Grinding down the wafer
10:22 Characterization testing
13:08 Checking for issues using X-Ray scanning
14:26 Testing and binning machine
16:01 Assembling and manually fixing our modules
22:15 Cutting machine
24:01 Validation labs and MoBo hall of fame
26:04 Anechoic chamber testing
27:08 Putting our RAM into a PC!
30:29 Outro

[QualityDoggo]

Micron must've wanted to one-up the previous "factory visit" companies -- letting Linus get hands-on is amazing! Awesome to see active development and testing, sometimes between new generations it feels like there's nothing happening.

[mikearisbrocken]

As someone who worked in SMT manufacturing, it’s easy to lose the child-like wonder feeling these machines produce the first time, fortunately Linus is very good at bringing that feeling back.

[brinsonmcbride]

I know these videos don't have as widespread appeal as others, but they're my absolute favorite. Seeing how everything is made and works and impacts our daily life without even realizing it is so freaking cool

[fmorejon]

Thanks to Micron for being so open with their tech but also being very clear when LTT has to bleed or cover their images. This video is great content

[JettoDz]

That was the best fake laugh I've ever heard. It's amazing how professional they are at laughing at the boss's jokes. Truly a world-class team.

[MrJohnBos]

Having worked in the semiconductor industry for many years, I am surprised by how much production and test equipment you were allowed to see and access. Thank you Micron for allowing Linus such an amazing tour of your DRAM memory technology. I loved it, great video.

[NoblePineapples]

This was probably one of my most favourite factory tours yet. Absolutely cool facility and hosts.

[FOGoticus]

24GB sticks... by Linus's reaction, they could've even been 8000MHz sticks for all we know. That's insane.

[jasonlib]

the CL69 on the label... nice I honestly just love the fact that the micron guys not only took the time to make up their own BS label for the sticks. But also specifically threw in a weird unusual capacity that linus never would have seen before, just to mess with him, and by his face first reading it. it worked! that right there is dedication! i love it

[Methylene.]

Well Crucial and micron have a new customer with how they were so incredibly nice to Linus, that was pretty damn awesome

[ShhTime]

Its official this was the best factory tour ever. Micron was such an amazing host

[rorycaracciolo]

I’m sitting in a Micron facility watching this and it’s pretty sweet to see equipment that I’m very familiar with on the channel lol

[tommyschultz]

As a Micron employee it is awesome to see Linus being able to come here, make his own RAM and shed some light on the technology we work on day in and day out! Really proud of my coworkers for making this happen and showing some behind the scenes of the manufacturing process

[mcb]

They let you make RAM so unique and (possibly) cutting edge that you literally can’t tell us the specs? That is super duper cool! I was actually just looking for videos explaining how ICs are made now, and this came out just today! Amazing timing!

[BrazenNL]

Wow, they really pulled out all the stops to make this day a … special memory.

[fretwizard]

As someone who works in the semiconductor industry and actually gets to probe wafers just like this, this is good stuff. It's simply amazing how small those probe tips are. Those touchdown marks are so small it's almost unreal!

[Rmag]

I cannot believe they allowed linus to not only operate their equipment, but physically hold a wafer. They have either never watched linua drop anything on the channel, or they decided to write off any collaterol damage resulting from his visit. Great video, thanks LTT, thanks Micron!

[scottieapplseed]

THIS is the level of transparency and professionalism that shows what is real and where lines are and should be for companies. Making realistic deals and arrangements and calling out things that are exceptions and not the normal rule shows more than just the whys but also trust in the industry.

[karnige]

respect to micron for being so damn chill. intel was like north korea with linus.

[drainx]

A little late to the party, but the reason why it's 24gb modules is for the new AMD Genoa platform with memory channels of multiples of 3. The flagship model currently has 96 cores in 12 CCDs with 12 channel DDR5 memory. Not really a huge secret, but Linus could have just 'speculated' on this at the end.