Leo Says Ep.68: Intel at Malaysia (Meteor Lake)

Leo was invited over to spend time with Intel at Malaysia in Penang. It was an interesting week and a lot of it is sadly still under NDA. Still there are some things he can talk about. Let us know your thoughts in the comments below.

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#intel #malaysia #penang

[QuentinStephens]

Joy! A Leo speaks video. That was both instructive and a thorough tease!

[lucifersheadscarf]

Looks like you had a good time. Have high hopes for upcoming releases.

[__aceofspades]

Really nice that Intel offers these tours to press. It gives us viewers an insight to how complex the whole operation is. No wonder only Intel, TSMC and Samsung exist as leading edge foundries. Also how huge and global Intel is. I am really looking forward to meteor lake, but love seeing the how its made.

[nguyenkimtrongmusic]

Packaging those chips must be insanely precise given the side of the connections.

[fgdcuh]

Wow didnt know Intel had been in Malaysia for over 50 years.

[thatsgottahurt]

Really cool video, thank you. I could easily just pause if need more time to read or look at pictures, but some of the slides were so quick I found my self pausing several times in this video. Even just a one or a couple of extra seconds per slide or picture would have made a difference. But thats just me, either way, great video, thanks again!!

[musicvibes]

Amazing seeing those tiles on the ponte vecchio.

[duncanm]

Hope you got to experience the awesome food in Penang too! It's a foodie's heaven!

[unclerubo]

Intel gluing dice together after publicly throwing shit at AMD for doing it a few years ago is my favourite irony in recent silicon development techniques.

[Carvin]

Penang has an Assembly and Test factory for Intel. "Test" is a highly sophisticated operation, not as photogenic as the "Assembly" operation. "Test" doesn't merely verify that silicon dies and the final package are functional. Test classifies dies by speed, power, and many other attributes, not just pass/fail. Then, dies are "matched" in packages according to their attributes. There are also calibration, repair by fusing, etc. operations that occur in Test. That requires a lot of sophisticated robotic operations. It looks like Intel was just showing the obvious photogenic Assembly operation.

[justindavis]

They have held good gaming performance now for some time. Will be keen to see how the upcoming generation handle in regards to power v performance.

[parlay]

Very lucky to have had a look inside one of those plants.

[henryvlog]

Those wafers are massive! Would love to have one of those uncut on the wall.

[mayonezyoutube]

Cant imagine how they manage to align those tiles on a package and glue it together without moving.

[EnochGitongaKimathi]

Meteor Lake
New Process Node: Intel 4
New manufacturing technology: EUV
New Packaging: Chiplet with a mix of tiles from TSMC and Intel.... This is huge.
EMIB
Foveros
Adamantine 128MB L4 Cache Silicon Interposer
16GB or 32GB Memory on Package (Asus Zenbook Pro 16X OLED 2023 is using Supernova SoM System on Module featuring RAM on the same package)

[buyingastairwaytoheaven]

A lot of data and I’ll be interested to come back when the NDA breaks to see more

[copcar]

Leo is like beaker brought to life. Just need to add the red hair.

[legitrobloxhacksofficial]

I thought for separating the dies they used to just snap them along the empty lines.

[abdenourlouerad]

How come Leo keep getting to go on these wonderful holidays let James have a bit of sun guys.

[SOG]

Everythings too perfect, need some clumsy employee spilling coffee or something lol