I Ripped Up My Sponsor’s Check - Intel Fab Tour 

Linus: "I would have paid them to take a tour of it" Intel: "We don't accept LTTstore coupons"

Intel: Gives Linus money just for visiting. Linus: Rips up money Yvonne hundreds of miles away: I sense a disturbance.

I remember the video where Linus legitimately asked Intel if he could come to their lab (and that he would pay to go), and now that dream is a reality. Great job on the video guys! What an experience to remember!

I watched LTT for 8 years and it made me want to be an engineer. I was super burnt out by the time I was a sophomore but this video reminded me of why I chose this path. Thank you Linus!!

Once Intels leadership changed I see that they have become much more transparant and allow vlogers in thier facilities. Cool to see Intel moving on the right path.

Someone in Intel clearly either started getting it, or already got it and finally has enough clout. *This* is the sort of thing that rebuilds consumer trust and interest in your company, engaging with consumers, showing a face beyond ultra-corporate marketing garbage and showing off more than some slides on a stage. AMD did a great job of this when Ryzen kicked off and, combined with a genuinely great product, it let them leapfrog Intel big time. And, just like we hoped, the sudden competition (and slight embarrassment) seems to be pushing Intel away from relying on marketing and brand reputation for sales and into engineering, transparency and engagement. I really hope the two companies continue in close competition because seeing Intel give a little more backing to the engineers, the nerds, the PR groups and really push things is awesome, much more likely to make consumer sales than squeezing existing buyers for greater margins an slick marketing presentations

linus:"i ripped the intel's check" also linus: " hi crucial where is my check "

That man at 3:20 can sleep on the couch tonight😂

7:45 "these rigs can do all kinds of things that a customer would never do" - as a test architect I can tell you, test scenarios are akin to safety rules. That is to say they are written in blood. If you see a test scenario and think, "weird, wonder why they test that?" someone somewhere probably has a story to tell about that issue they spent sleepless nights trying to fix which lead up to that scenario being created. Sure occasionally we come up with some kinda contrived scenarios on our own based on what we know are potential weaknesses or areas of concern, but the wild ones usually come from wild events that actually took place.

I can only imagine how long it took for the PR team to go over every pixel in every frame of this video to make sure everything was blurred

He's working more than 24 hours a day, he's literally bending spacetime to work more hours per day than currently exists, this man's dedication is astounding!

Make a full Israel high tech tour! The country is full of it!

So now we finally know why Intel has had some notorious release and exploit issues in recent years- when your team is cramming more than 24 hours into a day, you’re going to end up with clock timing issues.

This makes me wonder: what did Intel's manufacturing facility look like back on the last 90's-late 2000's. Did they have 20 Crt's stacked on a wall?

Once again Linus you have made the content that I want to see, really pleased for you to have such an opportunity to do something like this. Keep the great content coming. Thanks for running such a great channel.

These series at Intel Fab is awesome.. hope we get so much more content from these fab visits! Thx Intel and Linus!

Linus: "I ripped up the sponsor's cheque!" Employees: "Thanks, boss."

I took an airplane ride with a chip developer. The kind of guy that develops chips that we won't see 4 to 6 years. This guy's brain was on a level that I've never seen before or since. Thank you Linus Media Group for putting this together for us viewers

Wow, how amazing to see this. Thank you sir. I am excited for your next video about this lab.

These facility tours you've been doing for years are seriously lit fam. I love em!

Intel is really ahead of it’s time: their employees manage to work more than 24 hours per day!

The fact that this is, by far, the most interesting LTT video in terms of actual tech journalism, and it's only 10 minutes long is a crime. This needs to be at least 4 times longer and so much more in depth.

I’m an intel employee and I learn more from Linus these days than any internal forums

I work on AMD's equivalent to Product Platform Validation (we call it System Level Testing) for Ryzen desktop. So it's really fascinating to see how team blue does things and to see what's similar and what's different! There is definitely a healthy mix of both.

It gives me hope that Linus can still make videos that excite him this far along in his career.

It's actually insane how much industrial equipment it needed to make something as small as a CPU, makes you appreciate the thought process behind the whole thing.

Incredible tour, thank you for that video!!!! From my POV you can do at least 5 additional episodes, just about how all this works 😍😍😍

Intel's factory's are so freaking cool. When I was 12 years old, my class went on a trip to Intel's largest manufacturing plant outside the US (since it is only a 10 minute walk away from the school lol) and got given a tour around it and it was so fun and amazing to see the things that happened there

Linus: starting to struggle with money to do with backpacks, screwdrivers and lab 2. Also Linus: I ripped up a check from Intel.

What Linus said: "I ripped up my sponsor's check" What Linus thought: "Direct deposit is much more convenient"

It's awesome seeing you get excited and let your geek get its freak on. I look forward to the other video!!! thanks for showing us btw!!

Man i so wish this was more in depth. This is by far the best video LMG has done in a LONG time. The level of passion comes through so clearly. As someone how has been watching for a long time I love seeing Linus getting so excited.

3:18 Well someone's sleeping on the couch, lol

dude. this video got me so pumped to see technology being made. I felt disappointed that the video had to end. can't wait to see the next video that you are making!

Excellent - looking forward to the follow-up

this is one of the best videos I have seen on youtube and I've always loved the technology but it has never been in 4k before. I love this and there need to be more actual engineers talking to people about it not a pr team that don't know what they are talking about I love what they are doing with going to diforent fabs and filming it and showing how it works, I get that there is a small audience that gets giddy for the next chipset coming out but I love the content coming out and I love how acualy helpful it is for me working in IT.

That clip of all the engineers huddled around that screen and cheering that the PC powers on brings a huge smile to my face because I'm a computer engineering student and it's such a beautiful moment when something your team worked so hard on actually works after what feels like an eternity of prototyping and testing. I'm so glad that moments like that aren't lost in such a high level professional setting.

Linus: "I would have paid for the tour" Intel: "We'll settle for some of them sweet desk pads"

This really deserves a unedited raw version we can watch, just blur what needs to be blured but I could watch this for an hour or more linus, please. ❤️

Awesome video man so cool to see stuff like this

Having CPUs that can go to sleep while still outputting video could be handy for display walls, digital signage and other applications where the CPU only needs to run to update whatever is being displayed. There is no point in wasting 30W running the whole platform continuously when it only needs to update outputs once every 10+ seconds. They may also be testing panels with self-refresh capability where there is actually no HDMI/DP signal, just the IGP telling the monitor to go into self-refresh mode before going to sleep.

I had a core 2 duo for years, that machine was absolutely bulletproof and while I saved for an upgrade I put a core2quad in there and it lasted an extra 2 years. God I miss those days, PC gaming was so much cheaper

It was interesting to watch. Thank you!

So F'kin cool Linus. -- Can't wait for the deep dive.

Linus: "I tore up my sponsorship cheque" Also Linus: "Let me tell you about today's sponsor!"

Does any other "tech review" do things like this? The variety of what's covered, and the people, is why I like LTT so much. Honestly Linus, you and all your companions have created a legacy

3:09: "I worked more than 24 hours a day..." That was calculated on the new 12th Gen processor....

I am so excited for this series!!!!!

Expensive fact: that scope "black box" at 6:40 costs about 1/4 of a million dollars US each

10 minutes? I assumed there would be enough content for a couple 30 minute videos. Intel is doing good for themselves by allowing you and others to do vlogs, it's encouraging to see a team of people rather than just lame corporate promo/adverts we're normally left to roll our eyes at. Great job, can't wait to see more.

This was a super cool video. Good work.

This might be my favorite video on this channel, not even kidding.

"I ripped up my sponsor's check." Because Crucial wrote a bigger one...

As a silicone test engineer myself (for a much smaller company than Intel) I find this fascinating. I can understand much of what they are doing and have deeper knowledge than what Linus can fit into a ten minute vid, but I'm still blown away by the scale of the testing that has to be done at Intel. It's quite incredible!

CONGRATULATIONS Linus! You outdid yourself. FASCINATING. ❤

Linus- "so I ripped up the sponsor cheque" Ltt accounting team- "you did what?!" Linus- "yeah I even said I would pay them instead!" Ltt accounting team-"..."

3:08 Now THATS WHAT I CALL PASSION 😂

I'm glad you finally got to see a front end (especially one done right vs. TI). But I would like to see tunnel diode threshold logic CPU and GPUs. 1000 times the speed as 1% the power.

This is super cool. I work at Intel in Pre-Silicon and I didn't know about all the stuff that happens after!

I work as an engineer for a very small research and development branch of a water testing company. I can’t Imagine being apart of such a high scale operation. The 12 of us at my branch are frantically testing and rolling out firmware updates daily for our product launch. The pressure and pace must be insane at that Intel facility. Thank you for the tour Linus!

Do they have a robot that simulates a RU-vid tech reviewer dropping the CPU while trying to install it?

Ripped up the Intel sponsor check and just got another for the video instead. Well played. Loved this video, thanks Linus!

This place is literaly 15 minutes from my home. And linus is there

this is pure commitment and deserve my unconditional respect. just don’t apologize to Tim Sweeney again.

If you have the RU-vid comment search extension and search "AMD" on this video you will seriously cringe reading the comments... lol

Very cool video! Awesome they let you see so much :)

Wow, this is insane. This video should definitely be longer.

This is really cool. I do semi conductor design for cellphones that is really similar. Very cool to see what one of the biggest companies in the Biz is doing.

I'm from the old school. My first use of an Intel CPU was the ancient 386. Now, my fastest Intel CPU is the i7-9700. It's been a wild ride from the early days until now.

I'm so happy Pat took the reigns. I love it when engineers get to make the decisions.

6:31 That drop... He/She dropped the CPU. Just seeing the fact that they are used to it so much that they know it wont break if you drop it a little bit is amazing.. I wouldn't ever dare to handle a CPU like that.. Think of a super fragile egg? That is how i handle CPUs..

I think this is the type of content that I expected when I subscribed all those years ago and everything else we have gotten instead has been nothing but icing on the top

It's cool to see the inner workings of a behemoth like Intel. The amount of work that goes into one chip is amazing, and they're nonstop developing and testing. Its crazy that everything just works as expected.

I wish this video was longer, so interesting !

This Video was "Hecka" enoyable. Love it!

Love this mini series keep it up. Love seeing you geek out like a little kid💜

Linus looks like a kid who flew to the other side of the hemisphere to one of the biggest candy stores. I love it

I’d love to see you visit ASML after watching this vid! I know several media had a tour in the past. Although obviously a lot will be blurred there

So cool,awesome video mr Li

The oscilloscope @6:39 is worth about $1.3 million. It's a Keysight Infiniium UXR series. 110GHz oscilloscope. Flagship beast. There's only a handful of them in the world.

The best thing of the lab tour was the Keysight scope, costs about as much as your house

Definitely this video for the nebula laser projector!!

@7:55 some cpus in laptops that still have DVD drives. can boot into DVD player mode where the OS doesnt turn on at all. just plays DVDs for drastic increased battery life. probably for this feature.

3:13 Gee, thanks a lot, dad...!

Editing was brutal in the beginning

I liked the depth of field blur in this video

That Vader sticker on the VDR machine, glad to know the engineering team at Intel has a great sense of humour. 8:03

Really interesting video, makes me think about how AMD and Nvidia do some of the stuff(specifically the power on part) since they go through TSMC and/or Samsung. I hope Linus can do more videos like this because I plan to go into the field of computer hardware engineering and it would be nice to know a little more about the engineering/manufacturing process of computer systems.

NEVER SAID THIS BEFORE BUT THIS IS THE BEST THUMBNAIL/TITLE/INTRO IVE EVER SEEN!!! I dont know what it was but it shocked me

LTT: makes the best video they've made in years Linus: "cut out all the details and make it short"

Wow that facility looks insanely intricate but amazing. As you would expect for Intel. That must be such a cool place to visit, definitely excited for Raptor Lake and Meteor Lake and whatever else the future has in store

As a Quality Specialist this is super exciting, I really wish we could see more of the Quality process

Linus, having the on-chip video output while having the CPU asleep validates that the onboard video works.

You can't stop loving Linus

I love Linus' passion. I really think it's his source of success!

7:52 i would assume that you wouldnt wanna have your CPU go wild after leaving it on sleep and burning itself/drawing current without a need for it or other unexpected issues that might happen. Just because something is ment to behave in a specific way doesnt mean it will most times.

would like to see a longer version of this

Awesome access 😳 always wanted to see the inside of that place haha

This is the first time I’ve been genuinely excited about a part two since the early scrap yard wars so thank you for showing this. Ps super excited to see what labs does also I love the direction you guys are heading even if you technically might have to go back on things like not going public or doing preorders and thank you for being an amazing role model I’ve watched since I was like thirteen (six years)

Hey Linus! I have a proposition for you. I have a working Macintosh 512k from 1985 with Mac Write, Mac Paint, Microsoft Word 1.0, and Microsoft Charts (I also have all the original user manuals). This Macintosh is my little piece of personal computing history, and it's insanely cool. I believe we, the viewers, would love to see your reaction to what is essentially the original Macintosh (the only difference between the OG Macintosh 128k and 512k is the extra amount of RAM). You are more than welcomed to take the Mac apart, and you can even turn it into a sleeper PC if you wanted. I know everything there is to know about the Macintosh and would love to share more with you. The Macintosh, keyboard, and mouse still work great; the only part in need of repair is the floppy disk drive motor that ejects the floppy disks. I have wanted to repair it myself, but finding replacement parts from 1985 is challenging. However, there is a manual eject release mechanism on the front of the Mac, which makes swapping floppy disks extremely easy. As for my offer, I will trade you everything I mentioned in exchange for a graphics card and a signed LTT screwdriver. I love LMG and everything it stands for in the world of tech. I have been watching LTT since 2013, and I always attribute my knowledge to you, Linus, and the team at LMG. Life hasn’t always been easy as nerd and it can be incredibly lonely and depressing some days, but having your content makes the world feel a little less small and closed off. Regardless of whether you are interested, I want to sincerely thank you and the team at LMG for teaching me everything I know about technology. I am profoundly grateful for your content and will always be a lifelong nerd and LTT fanboy! If you are interested, I can provide you with pictures of everything and a video of the Macintosh working. Thanks, Justin