Secrets of a $182 Billion Chip Maker: AMD's Labs | Full Documentary

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Published 2023-07-08
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This tour of AMD's Austin Headquarters features labs from around the sprawling campus, allowing us a never-before-seen look at the tools used by a hundred-billion dollar chip designer. During these tours, we get to see unreleased prototypes - like vapor chamber heatspreaders, first-party direct die plates, and unnamed CPUs - while also learning about the technology and tools used to test and design AMD's Ryzen (Zen) processors. The tour goes through the Bring-Up Lab, the codename "red door" lab, a thermal engineering lab, the device failure analysis lab, and an IHS etching facility.

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TIMESTAMPS

00:00 - Inside AMD's Billion-Dollar Headquarters
03:25 - AMD Bring-Up Lab
13:45 - CPU Graveyard
15:11 - Years of CPU Design
21:26 - Core Design Test Lab
27:23 - Thermal Engineering Lab
38:16 - Failure Analysis Lab
50:36 - Etching a Heatspreader
54:00 - Just the Beginning

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Steve Burke | Host, Writing, Video Editing Lead
Mike Gaglione | Filming, Video Editing
Vitalii Makhnovets | Filming, Video Editing

All Comments (21)
  • @GamersNexus
    Thank you so much for watching! This is what we've been wanting to do more of for a long time now and we're beyond excited to finally start producing these kinds of videos! SUPPORT OUR DOCUMENTARIES: Grab a Modmat, coaster, solder mat, toolkit, or shirt here: store.gamersnexus.net/ | Any purchases of Autographed Modmats will be signed by Steve, Vitalii, and Mike as a special memento for this project. Choose "Autographed" before July 15, 2023 to receive all 3 signatures. (Autographed orders from July 7 will also be signed by all 3 of us!) Grab a Large Volt Modmat: store.gamersnexus.net/products/modmat-volt-large Or a Medium Amp Modmat: store.gamersnexus.net/products/medium-modmat-v2 Get a High Durability Silicone Project & Solder Mat: store.gamersnexus.net/products/gn-project-solderin… Or a GN 4-Pack of 3D Drink Coasters! store.gamersnexus.net/products/gn-drink-debug-coas… Learn how an AMD CPU cooler is made! https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8vPfmY0KlJE Watch our AMD Stories of Zen interview with Bill & Amit: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RTA3Ls-WAcw
  • @hquest
    It is not every day someone outside our own company manages to grab the full R&D group, spread across 12 countries, on a Saturday, for a "show and tell" video from YouTube. Rest assured you are doing a much larger job than you can even imagine. Keep up with the great work and thank you to the entire GamersNexus team for bringing out of the park content.
  • @R4N6ER
    As an AMD employee, I am so happy GamersNexus was allowed to do a tour and documentary in the Austin Labs. I have not had the chance to see any of the stuff at AMD that is in this documentary and it was very cool to have a virtual tour of the facility and see what's going on with the CPU side of AMD! Bravo to your professionalism in journalism - I have a set of the coasters on my desk here in Orlando! :)
  • @AmUnRA256
    Masterpiece of a documentary. Wouldn't be suprised if some of the audience joins this field of industry just because of your video and work.
  • @mausmalone
    It's incredibly cool that you got to do this independently funded, but a part of me is really hopeful that AMD is happy with the video too because it would also be rad if they invited you back to see the GPU counterpart to the CPU labs.
  • @leglessAlex
    Absolutely LOVE feature length/long format GN content. Raising the bar for everyone in the tech sector.
  • @a59x
    This is next level tech journalism coverage, you've set the bar way too high for others.
  • @praxisrebourne
    These sorts of videos help do something very important, getting young people excited to choose professions in this space. I love that GN is doing these videos, since much of tech videos on YouTube feels like shiny new stuffs fueling our consumerism.
  • @DoubleDashGaming
    This is by far the BEST video i've seen on the inner workings of a chip designing Company. Top notch reporting and journalism!
  • Steve, this is an elegant and remarkable piece of tech journalism. You just brightened up my weekend.
  • @ernestoherrera703
    That was awesome. I am a bit stunned, that you've managed to gain reputation in the semiconductor industries to a degree where they would open their doors to do documentaries. Having worked in a software development department for a mask supplier, this is certainly an achievement and to me underlines your integrity as a team/company. Kind regards from Germany. (I've gladly left a small donation!)
  • @kirelagin
    Wow, that’s amazing, props to the Gamers Nexus team! And props to AMD for allowing this to happen!
  • Fantastic work by all. Maintaining your integrity while still keeping a productive relationship with companies in the industry is quite the tightrope to walk, GN rocks!
  • @sparkles3757
    This is the type of content which is worth paying for, keep it up GN Team!
  • @TheHighborn
    The fact that one guy did expo as a hobby speaks volumes about how good he is. that's crazy. edit: kind of as a hobby
  • @bjn714
    As much as I enjoyed Robert's presence when he was still there, Bill & Amit are the team WE NEED to see as an enthusiast, since you get the hyper-nerdy, but also super passionate explanations that only engineers who truly enjoy what they do can bring to the table. I really enjoy the long form videos as well, so I do hope this is the first of many others to come!
  • @POVwithRC
    Props to all, and specific props to the editor. It's no small feat to make an hour long story work with this many moving parts. I see you. 👏🏻
  • @svaiskau
    Don't usually comment, but just want to say that this was great. Compared to some of the other factory tour-type videos, this one really let the personalities of the AMD team shine through.
  • Bill: “oh I don’t kill that many parts, except this one… and uhhh this one…. Oh yeah almost forgot about this one”, that bit was hilarious Loved this video, before I dropped out of grad school my focus was in computer architecture, so it’s really cool to see the real labs in industry
  • @craigstubbings5940
    This video made me buy a Medium mod mat & a few other items for my office. It took me a few days to watch this completely but well worth the contribution & i get some quality gear to treat myself with! It's an easy decision & a win-win for everyone involved. Well done team!