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<blockquote data-quote="Rob Lancaster" data-source="post: 169686" data-attributes="member: 6154">Ok gotcha... That's what I thought, there has to be some ventilation..And thanks again for your service URI!!I'll need to stay tuned to this site so I can slowly take my time and learn more about these incredibly complex computers.. My older brother said years ago, &quot;learn it because it's not going away any time soon&quot;... He's an electrical engineer and gave us a tour of the fabrication lab where he worked... We put on the gowns, gloves, masks and booties. Then you go into a chamber box with a lot of air jets and they give you a blow job. Also all static charges are carefully controlled while in the lab.. The lighting was a kind of yellow. We were told that prevents premature exposure to the wafers because there's no UV in it.. They use UV light to develop the printed circuit art work that is&nbsp; imprinted on the wafer.. We went from the 2 &amp; 1/2 foot long 4 inch diameter hunk of sand that was baked in an oven at around 1200 degrees. Then it gets sliced into thin wafers. Then insolated and uninsulated substrates are added. Then it gets printed and then exposed to UV in a special machine. Now you have a microscopic layering of conductors and nonconductors or switches. The tube just went microscopic...&nbsp; Next they use a precision diamond saw to cut the wafer into hundreds or even thousands of chips.. Of course all the individual chips were tested before cutting with a nice oscilloscope.. Oh it's just sick not to have what they have... He, he hee.....</blockquote>

[QUOTE="Rob Lancaster, post: 169686, member: 6154"] Ok gotcha... That's what I thought, there has to be some ventilation.. And thanks again for your service URI!! I'll need to stay tuned to this site so I can slowly take my time and learn more about these incredibly complex computers.. My older brother said years ago, "learn it because it's not going away any time soon"... He's an electrical engineer and gave us a tour of the fabrication lab where he worked... We put on the gowns, gloves, masks and booties. Then you go into a chamber box with a lot of air jets and they give you a blow job. Also all static charges are carefully controlled while in the lab.. The lighting was a kind of yellow. We were told that prevents premature exposure to the wafers because there's no UV in it.. They use UV light to develop the printed circuit art work that is imprinted on the wafer.. We went from the 2 & 1/2 foot long 4 inch diameter hunk of sand that was baked in an oven at around 1200 degrees. Then it gets sliced into thin wafers. Then insolated and uninsulated substrates are added. Then it gets printed and then exposed to UV in a special machine. Now you have a microscopic layering of conductors and nonconductors or switches. The tube just went microscopic... Next they use a precision diamond saw to cut the wafer into hundreds or even thousands of chips.. Of course all the individual chips were tested before cutting with a nice oscilloscope.. Oh it's just sick not to have what they have... He, he hee..... [/QUOTE]

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