Secrets of a $182 Billion Chip Maker: AMD's Labs | Full Documentary
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- Опубліковано 16 лип 2024
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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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Really enjoyed this and the other AMD video. Thanks!
Thank you for making it it was start to finish awesome!
I think a more unique thumbnail would match this video better, to signify its something bigger.
Hey! Why make Netflix documentary free on UA-cam? 😂 Now you got all to make that kind of content 👍
Love what you guys do and thanks on behalf of all the lovely kitty cats you've helped!! You seemingly are a good guy Steve. Keep fighting the good fight for us abused consumers lol
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 UA-cam. 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.
Thank you for sharing that. We've done that with cool videos here too and it's nice to know we can be that for others!
Sincerely, thanks a lot for the kind words! :-) Take care!!
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! :)
As another fellow AMD employee, who does work at the Austin branch, definitely awesome to see! :)
Tell AMD to Work on FSR.. It kinda Sucks. I don't expect Nvida Crazy good. But Something more worth putting in games when it's an Option instead of sponsorship forced. At the VERY least better then XESS. Or put some focus in Console Hardware and make that Banger. I'm ready to see a bad ass Console happily play $750 to 1K AS long as ITs worth it.. 1440p+ at SOLID 60fps with great Fidelity.. It's my ONLY wish before I get To old and it don't matter to me anymore.
DLSS
XESS
FSR.... LETS MOVE THAT UP A NOTCH
Freesync IS AWESOME. LETS DO THAT WITH FSR.. please to see AMD beat Nvida and/Or Intel would be great.. Right now Intel CPU with Nvida GPU is kinda PC gaming Standard.
@@RedPillAlways nVidia uses Tensor cores for DLSS which AMD GPUs do not possess. I am still figuring out what can be done with Tensor cores, but it is a niche technology hyped like crazy, and upscaling is no replacement for rasterization power. nVidia sells xx50 GPUs relabeled as xx60/60Ti, having an 128-bit memory bus and low core count, for a ridiculous price. Even the 4080 has only 50% of cores compared to the top model and costs 75%, whereas the 3080 had 82% of cores and cost less than 50%. No wonder that nVidia advertizes upscaling so much. But people shall not pay for upscaling, rather for real performance of the chip.
@@danielguzman9847 I might have driven by that building. It looks oddly familiar, but I feel like that type of building is pretty common in Austin. I know some people at AMD but didn't know it was like...right there, right there (close to where I climb, haha). And shockingly close to NXP! I totally thought that AMD was in very, very south Austin.
@@astarothmarduk3720 ahh you can just say you're a AMD fangirl you know, it's kinda obvious
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.
Thank you for your support! The best thing we can do is excite others to explore this field!
this is only 1 seemingly small role in the company, but yes it does look really fun as it's basically a tinkering job with a lot of cool tech
I have worked on that same campus for 8 years for another company... AMD never invites us over to see the cool stuff even though we share a cafeteria.
@@rstidmanwhy would they tho
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.
I will work on that. I did hint in the video that the AMD/Ryzen OC team does work with the graphics folks... 🙂 Comments like this are helpful
@@billalverson6168that would be another great video to see.
@@billalverson6168 I think most of us would actually like to see something like that
@@billalverson6168 I can honestly say that this video has done more for my view of and faith in AMD and their products than every ad and presentation combined. I would *love* to see more of these, they're super cool!
one would hope they'd try to use it to actually make people like the product more. I try to stay unbiased when selecting going by scores and concrete proof but I still cant help being swayed by general user experience.
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!)
This is good PR for AMD. Yes, GN's reputation is important, but let's not forget that these corps don't approve anything without a perceived benefit.
That said, it's still insanely cool to see this stuff.
Agreed, I felt the same when Intel let Linus tour one of their facilities as a series of videos.
@@misterringer " corps don't approve anything without a perceived benefit." No, or by very definition it would be called a charity....
@@bujfvjg7222 yep
Absolutely LOVE feature length/long format GN content. Raising the bar for everyone in the tech sector.
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 UA-cam feels like shiny new stuffs fueling our consumerism.
That is a really good take.. thanks for your comment! I was very much just naturally drawn to computers at a very young age, even telling my dad I would be an engineer at AMD when I was 10yo.. a long time ago. I look at the information available now on the internet, and it's simply mind blowing when I think that I had to figure everything out with a few hard copy books that I was lucky to have at all, and all of that information is now so easily available. Take care! 🙂
yeh it really helps ground the computer the user and the work to make it..work.i work in tech but I never get tired of seeing these things.
Yeah! I just decided to go for an Electrical Enginering degree almost fully inspired by all the GN and LTT I watch.
@@galacticviper4453 mine was Software! but also thanks to my early love with tech since 3 years old, and sparked by many Techtubers and Gamedev Vloggers
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.
So happy to hear that! Have a good weekend!
I am proud of this industry because of journalism like this
@@GamersNexus No more upvotes please
This is next level tech journalism coverage, you've set the bar way too high for others.
This right here.
True !
Will be fun if/when we see his counter part at Intel 🙂
The bar is never to high. It just keeps moving on up
@@DJDocsVideos I think Linus did Intel tour way back in the day and from what i remember they were very strict about what they wanted to show, AMD seems more transparent and open, also from the way the AMD engineers are talking you can tell they respect GN and Steve a lot.
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!
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!
Thank you very much for your kind words. I consider Robert a great friend and his presence is missed greatly from my POV. I have also seriously considered getting a reverse glass drawing board in tribute... thoughts on that? 😛 Take care!!
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
To be fair to Bill, on the scale of parts we see and the extreme conditions they are exposed to (especially before we have understood the limits), the number is VERY small
Compared to the number of parts that pass through his systems on a daily basis, the number is likely pretty damn small. 😅
No... really.. I don't kill that MANY parts 🙂 Take care, and thanks for watching/commenting!
That segment with Bill "You know... I don't really kill that many parts..." needs to be one of the recurring memes on the channel. That deadpan sarcastic delivery is just absolutely perfect!
Cuts to literal bags of dead CPUs XD
Haha... thanks! Somehow I seem to often become the sound bite. "Let's go cold.. let's go cold.. let's. Go. Cold!" 😛
@@billalverson6168 Oh my, the man himself! I hope we get to see you and Steve do some LN2 OC for the next CPU launch, that would be awesome!
PS: Those dead chips with the sad faces on them are perfect for the AMD merch store ;)
@@r.j.esposito8056 I don't see why not. If the people want it, we can probably do it. Take care!
@@billalverson6168 ua-cam.com/video/bz-9WeHDPV4/v-deo.html
Wow, that’s amazing, props to the Gamers Nexus team! And props to AMD for allowing this to happen!
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. 👏🏻
Haha, it was a team editing piece. I did most the editing on this one, but we did a lot of training internally during the process so that Vitalii and Mike can take over more of these videos going forward! They did great on their sections and will be handling the majority of the next one!
@@GamersNexus I think it's super cool that you play a large role in so many different aspects of the content here.
Nobody song in nobody can see part was soo good. 👍
This is the type of content which is worth paying for, keep it up GN Team!
Thank you! We'll keep going!
Yes and not the "dissing nvidia "marketing" and promoting AMD" crap.
It is so awesome hearing the actual engineers themselves explain things. Not hearsay, not interpreting what someone else things, but the actual engineers. I wish we would see more of this from more channels.
Thanks a lot! comments like this are helpful.. we hope to be able to share more of the crazy details in the future. take care!
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!
Absolutely amazing content. This is my first donation for UA-cam content and I am absolutely delighted it rewards - even if it's a small one - such thorough work. Hats off GN!
Thank you so much for the donation!
You absolutely outdid yourselves. Really great work from the team. Thank you and thanks to the awesome AMD executive(s) and/or manager(s) that allowed this to happen and to the excellent engineers for their perceivable enthusiasm at showing their work.
I have one tiny nitpick: the definitions on the screen flashed a bit too fast for a non-native reader like me. I had to rewind and pause each time to finish reading.
Understood on the critique. We'll extend the duration next time! Thank you!
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.
This is on another level,
And I believe this video form truly adds to it,
Great choice, great video,
Amazing!
LinusMethLicks Intel tour was like watching an 8k screen through a frosted glass window.
@@bujfvjg7222 nuut nuut,
Tour was great.
Thanks for your kind comment! 🙂
As an ME and a tech nerd/enthusiast, I love this type of content. If there are longer videos I want to watch, I will set time aside to make sure I can sit and watch it in one go. Ive always appreciate the depth and effort the whole GN team puts into every video to really create something special and different on YT. Ive always found these super deep dive videos of really behind the scenes stuff very enjoyable and I hope more companies will let you be able to create more content like this.
42:19 "We have, say, 20 billion transistors on a chip, and we have to find which ones went bad."
That line sums up this whole tour, in my opinion. Absolutely incredible work on display. Thanks, GN crew, for taking us along!
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
A paid passion product if you will
And makes his work life better
As an engineer I can say this video is pretty freakin crazy and I'm a little surprised AMD allowed you to show some of those very unique aspects of how they do things.
Shortest 55 minutes of my life, I feel like we just watched the intro to a series or read a contents page, I want to dive in to each chapter! This must've been brutally difficult to cut and edit! Top work, you continue to elevate the quality of content again and again and again...... ❤
I can’t tell you how amazing it was to see this, your team not only does everything it can to keep these companies honest, but you also showcase the passion and personalities of the engineers behind the computing products we love. You’ve got a fan for life.
“Thanks, Steve!”
That. Was. AWESOME! I was grinning like an idiot through that entire video. I originally wanted to go into engineering because I've always wanted to learn how things work. I handle some system development, albeit on a tiny scale compared to this, and getting to see the magic behind a product is fantastic. Thank you GN for this, and thanks to AMD for allowing the tour in the first place.
Love hearing the stories about what motivated people to become interested in this hobby and field to begin with. Thanks for the kind words as well!
Thanks for your kind words!! Take care!
@@billalverson6168Hey Bill, the enthusiasm and knowledge of you and the team featured throughout this video is a huge part of what made it so great to watch. Thank you!
Props to AMD for letting you in and taking time to show you and us everything. Thanks AMD and Gamers Nexus! ❤
you're welcome :-) Take care!!
Videos like this really highlight how incredibly impressive modern technology is. Thousands of people have spent decades improving this technology to the point were the inner workings are so far beyond the average person's comprehension it may as well be magic. Incredible.
Man, it must feel so damn good to be at this point in your career, and with your integrity intact, which is the reason you got in there. Good work everyone.
Still really love it every day! Take care! 🙂
That was amazing. Credit to AMD and it's people.
When a corporation allows you and and a AV crew into it's R&D campus you know the industry has a lot of respect for you and your integrity as a journalist. Top stuff and well done.
Or that they know they’ll get a huge amount of positive PR for it and it costs them next to nothing. 👍
@@BikingChap Goes without saying. But you have to appreciate the Mom&POP feel about AMD. They manipulate just as well as anyone.
If I still worked at EMC's e-lab, I could have shown you all this for (enterprise) storage. We had custom testers for Fiber Channel and NVMe protocol analysis. I wrote my own IO load testing tool that found all kinds of firmware bugs in Cisco/brocade/broadcom/Qlogic/VMware firmwares. We had servers and switches from every vendor. Labs are super fun to work at, but also super unrewarding when you're a high performer. Make a breakthrough that generates millions in revenue? Your bosses soak it all up. It's no fun to be smart in those places; your wins get eaten by mgmt, and you get told "despite inventing cold fusion, your performance just isn't good enough to justify a raise or promotion". Soul crushing.
I totally believe it. Testers are the most talented unrewarded/undervalued folks in both the hardware and software side imo.
That's why one keeps a diary about how one's benefited the company in terms they understand. Regardless of profession. Don't depend on them to remember or understand.
You know in the back of your mind things like those break-out boards must exist, but it's so odd to actually see them in the flesh because they're entirely unique to one use case. It's like when master craftsmen make their own custom tools that no-one else would even know how to use or figure out what they're even for.
The permission to film in this labs shows the trust AMD has in the integrity of GN-crew, hard to gain and easily lost. Congrats!
Even large scale journalism companies that focus on tech stuff aren’t bringing this type of stuff to public eye. The GN team’s dedication to trustworthy journalism and accurate information is unmatched, and it to do it consistently fresh and entertaining ways? That’s just icing on the cake🍰 Thanks everyone at GN who worked on this awesome video!!
Awesome insight. I worked for the "other team" in the semiconductor manufacturing game and it was cool to see the labs here and try and spot similarities and differences in the tooling on the test benches and what not. You guys definitely got the VVVIP tour and I bet the stuff you couldn't show was truly fascinating.
One interesting thing I noticed, in the segment showing the laser etching for the heat spreaders, if you look closely at the lasers reflection in the glass, you can see what appears to be the laser tip come into frame at 53:03 and run its' path for a few seconds. I thought that was really neat, cus I'm like a 12 year old boy and anything with a laser becomes instantly 10x more awesome.
Thanks for the cool documentary and I am definitely looking forward to more vids in this format, so I think I'll go buy some coasters and a rubber mat I've been needing.
1) Big props to AMD for permitting the access. 2) Big props to GN for the presentation. Both players have officially levelled up!
But Intel is still the best! I agree with number 2 he helped me build a gaming computer. I'm 16 btw 🙂
This video single-handedly did more positive PR for AMD than Intel was able to do in the last 10+ years paying people to positively review their furnace CPUs. Good job AMD and GN. 🙌👍
Pro tip: Release the furnace CPUs in wintertime. Then it's not a bug, it's a feature! One you can charge extra $$$ for 🤑👍
@@dakoderii4221you mean 13900k?)
Absolutely but it rather begs the question, and I hate to sound negative, why did this happen? 🤷
@@BikingChapbeats me. Marketing and upper management seems to be in their own weird echo chamber that has a weird chance of making weird decisions from time to time. One more often than others.
@@BikingChapbecause we asked?
As someone who works in the technology industry I find this video fascinating. Keep providing the excellent content.
Gamer nexus what you achieve is incredible, a HW enthusiast channel with so many followers i am an electronic purchasing engineer and engineering teacher in the past, i work in an electronic company in spain, we design and manufacture high power electronic devices, nice to see our engineers are as nerd as AMDs.... congratulations, this video is amazing...
7:50 Elmore Labs just got a huge shout-out. This documentary is awesome so far
Elmor's lab is awesome, too! We got to go there recently. That's another upcoming video!
@@GamersNexus Wow! I really cannot wait. I love those documentary style videos.
Jon is a genuinely awesome guy! I have learned a lot from him over the years, and he has helped me with issues on many occasions. Those memory programmers made my life so much easier as just one example. Take care! :-)
I have to give massive props to AMD for not only allowing reporting and filming of a facility like this, but to have a group like GN where the people are knowledgeable, can ask good questions, and most importantly, will tell the actual facts and their own opinions rather than do a paid positive review. Bonus points for showing the failure lab because most companies PR departments would likely want to hide any implication that their product could fail, even during testing and development.
Thanks for your kind words! 🙂
It is always a pleasure to watch the behind the sceens of complex development process and the passionate engineers behind the products.
Thank you AMD and Gamers Nexus for bringing this documentary out!
The failure analysis labs were so freaking cool. Fantastic job on this one guys.
Minor suggestion, for your own videos you put up how long you've been doing something on the screen. It would have been cool to, along with their name and position, also put up how long they've been with AMD or in the industry could be cool for some perspective. Also, love the highly technical guys there getting unleashed on camera, so fun to see them gush about their passion like they're just venting all the pent up nerd they don't get to unleash except to their colleagues.
Good idea on the tenure. I like that. I'll start asking. Maybe we can add a note like, "8 Years at (Company)"
Hi - I've been at AMD since 2010. Still loving it! Legit dream job. Told my dad I'd be an engineer at AMD when I was 10 😀 take care!
@@GamersNexus THANKS STEVE!
I am pleased that you and your team read comments and take information from them.
You guys are really some of the best tech journalists around.
@@billalverson6168 Thank you Bill for adding your info here. It means a lot for us consumer types to see industry folks actually interact with the users. :)
CHEERS.
@phlogistanjones2722 no problem. Good suggestions!
Excellent BTS. We always seem to get bombarded with how poorly the leadership is at these companies. Not remembering the human aspect of how talented and dedicated the actual people who are designing and building the products we enjoy everyday. Glad to see videos highlighting these cool people. Keep it up GN
I have only two things to say about this video:
One: Great high quality video as usual. Thank you all at GN :)
Two: Now I have lab envy :(
There are people at AMD that feel the same way. Also, I'm hiring soon! 🙂
I love seeing the people behind a product, and in this case the people behind AMD. How passionate they are, just makes me happy and makes me feel good about buying their products. Well made documentary loved every min of it!
I think this says a lot about the respect GN has in the industry. Steve, you and your team have built a juggernaut. Also, love that AMD allowed you to do this. It doesn't get much better than this!
Superb piece of work, prompted me to make my first purchase from the GN Store. You've always been the best review channel, but you're now lifting things to a level way beyond that. I'm glad you took the risk, it's going to pay.
This is absolutely insane!
It's amazing you now have the "street cred" to be asked by AMD if you wanna make that kind of tour.
And I find it very good of AMD to ask you, one of the most data and scientific method driven techtuber, to reveal their lab.
I like a LTT vid like the next guy, but I 100% prefer some lab stuff like this to be covered by you guys.
Really loving your documentary stuff altogether.
Masterful job from your whole team, keep it up!
Steve, this is really incredible work and I really have to hand it to you in your whole team. I remember watching how it's made growing up and always loving seeing how the different machines work, but to see the more human side of industry is always really cool and to see engineers who are so into their job and are so excited about meeting with you to talk about what they do is something really special. And thank you AMD for allowing GN into their facility, and taking the time to meet with you and show all of these things.
It's understandable why it doesn't happen that often, but it's incredible to actually see behind the sanitised PR and marketing and look at the actual engineering work that goes into these projects. Thanks for all your work on this one, it was worth it!
This type of growth is what makes me proud to have been a Patreon supporter for almost 5 years now. You guys are unrivalled in whatever you truely set your mind to and I am always excited to see what you are doing next. Keep up the awesome work Steve, the world needs more people like you
It's cool seeing how they have so many of your merchandise in their labs
We did a live stream with GN last year and Steve offered me a new mod mat to take home. Then he asked if I would like to take the mod mat that we actually used on the set - I absolutely of course took that one and put it in my lab! I may have pilfered some GN coasters as well :-)
This was super cool, thank you all for taking the time!
Love Gamers Nexus!! The reviews the in depth and honest content. Non Biased and fun to watch. Thank you Gamer Nexus for hundreds of hours of content I have Ingested. Probly my top 3 fav channels.
Thank you so much for the support and we're honored to be in your Top list!
GN is AMAZING
8:28 cheeky product placement :D
He had our mat and coasters there all on his own!
@@GamersNexus I expected as much, another mark of quality for your stuff
These tours and behind the scenes are amazing, some of the best tech content I've ever seen!
Amazing work by Steve, Vitali and Mike - you clearly make a great team! Loved seeing the passion from the engineers behind all of these creations, very inspiring and informative.
I can say without a shadow of a doubt that this is one of the BEST pieces of tech journalism I've ever seen, may be one of the best youtube videos I've ever seen period. Absolutely insane that you guys got to film all of this.
Thanks for the kind words!
At 20:00 the engineer, sorry I lost track of his name, mentions the difficulty of monitoring traffic and diagnosing issues on the Zen CPU with the chiplet design. If that gets discussed more I'd love to hear more of it. Chiplets are clearly how CPU's and GPU's will be built going forward but if the chiplet interlink cannot be easily monitored then it could be a major problem.
It’s just a link like pcie, the point he was making was about not having the space to break them out because they are built into a substrate together. They would need to build a way to monitor that traffic into silicon and or path it to the I/O pins to really monitor it perfectly, but there already exist ways to see if that link is giving bad data, with zen 4 you will see loss of performance due to error correction causing a reduction in bandwidth and all out crashing if it can’t communicate data effectively.
@@alexmills1329 Yep. and Zen 3 will either give you WHEA errors for CPU/Bus interconnect (if VSOC is lower than required), or have from sound stutters up to outright system reboots under load. (if VSOC is MUCH lower than needed... Like 0.1+V lower). And even then it will throw WHEAs before crash.
Zen4, at least for now seems like doesn't report WHEA's but it's ECC is A LOT stronger... You may see performance degradation that will increase with lowering voltage more and more.
@@DimkaTsv True gamers play on Intel, not AMD or Apple! I'm 16 and I even know this!
Embed the monitoring in the silicon. The PHY knows what it sees.
@@swallowedinthesea11gotta be a troll
This is so nostalgic for me. I used to be a dev for telco equipment maker and this was how my office looks like albeit way smaller than AMD of course. The smell of solder, tapes, free pcb and some musk came flooding back!
Really love this types of contents & can't wait for more! 😁
You guys never cease to amaze me on the depth you are willing to go! Awesome piece of content here
Yeah, just fantastic.
This is so cool to see. You can tell all the folks you guys spoke to are just really happy to be able to share their work with the outside world, since they're usually kept away from any sort of customer facing role. I feel this sort of video is important, as it reminds us that behind all the frustrating and sometimes outright idiotic decisions of the people in the c-suite, are actual hardworking engineers who truly desire and work hard to create good products that they want people to be able to enjoy.
Thanks for the awesome feedback!! All of the people in the video really do genuinely care, I can guarantee you that :-)
That "AMD WELCOMES GAMERS NEXUS" at 53:50 etching was exactly what I was thinking would be cool for them to do and they did it!
This is absolutely amazing. I'm SUCH a nerd but I'm not even a tenth of a percent of what these guys are.. man what did I do with my life? I need to go work for AMD. Thanks so much for going out there and show us the guys (and gals I'm sure) that make AMD happen. I'm am sticking with AM4 for a while, I just went from a 2600x to a 5800x3d and I don't plan on going to AM5 until AM6 if I even do. Maybe I'll wait for the next generation (not iteration) to come out.
Not gonna lies, this is one of the greatest documentary i have ever seen. So much enthusiasm, cool tech and insight. Thank you so much for doing this documentary for us, GN Team!
Thanks for your kind words! 🙂
I'm impressed with AMD. They're a Juggernaut, but still have a down to earth and humble approach.
I told my dad I'd be an engineer at AMD when I was 10. I feel the same now as I did back then, and I strive to empower the end-users daily. Wait til you see the next AM5 AGESA release... 🙂
Oh wow, the callback to The Butcher from Diablo 1 at 28:30....wonder how many folks will get *that* reference these days!
your videos set a new standard for tech journalism!
I specifically waited to watch this until I could do so uninterrupted. Well worth the wait. I look forward to the interview videos you mentioned. Seriously - Thanks Steve (& team)!
At this point you guys have covered just about every tier of computer system production, from cables, to cores, to boards, to cases, and all of the testing kit in between. It's been a wild ride GN, thanks for sharing the road trip with us! Mod mat is on order. :-)
That delidded cpu part where you showed the old amd cpu that shipped without a lid back in the day
That made me hella nostalgic, reminded me of my very first AMD XP mobile chip i started overclocking with when i was a youngster
athlon xp heat heads, do u guys still have athlon XPs or MPs? retro overclock that beast, dont forget the nail polish and silver ... to fill out the laser cut gaps to unlock the multiplicator
I started on AMD 386, but Athlon XP holds a very special place in my heart for sure. From the pencil trick (I used automotive rear window defrost repair epoxy) to the unlocked Barton 2500 set to 400MHz FSB to become a 3200. Good times 🙂
Take care!
This documentary is a great start to the weekend. Thank you for putting so much time into this; I hope this gets a lot of views so the time spent was worth it.
Massive props to an outstanding job from GN. Insightful and entertaining. (As a video editor, this amount of video footage is daunting task to trim down to a final product)
Also, a huge win in PR and mindshare by AMD in my book. Respectful collaboration with such deep access to their workflow gives us, the consumers, confidence in their work and ethos.
You’re content has upgraded my dude! Really enjoy hearing from these super smart guys and seeing what’s going on behind the scenes!! Keep going GN!
Arguably one of the best videos you have done so far. Very interesting and very entertaining. Having the people actually doing the innovation, research and iteration is always a treat. Ty GN and the folks at the AMD lab
Loved GN for the fair and "direct" reviews. Loved it more for fighting to protect the consumer (insert fire and explosions B-Roll here), but this type of content is really setting it apart from the pack.
You had me at cat on a mat.
Kudos to all the team at GN and AMD for letting you peek into the box.
One of the best videos you all have put out there. Really impressive and an interesting look behind the scenes of what it takes to bring these things to us. Makes me miss working in my PC hardware testing lab even though it doesn't hold a candle to these setups
It would be cool to see the thinner IHS design get implemented at some point, I would like to see what cooler's manufacture's make in response to the change. They may come up with designs to take advantage of any extra usable clearance space gained on the block or plate, assuming the mounting height is lower. Very cool tour by the way.
It felt like 15 minutes had gone by before I reached the end! This was so crazy interesting and entertaining. What an absolute treat of a video. Thank you!
Awesome content. Really liked the longer format and the detail you go into. GN genuinely delivers content you cant see anywhere else. Not only that, but your editorial values, and professional integrity are something that is a standard others should aspire to.
As someone who works in some very different analytical labs from these ones, it is awesome seeing AMD's facilities! Fantastic video and good on AMD for giving access!
I'm not THAT much of a nerd and certainly not an AMD fanboy but just about a 3rd into the video and loving it content wise, presentation wise and seeing it for what it is: a bunch of super nerds with soldering irons. It's extremely interesting and entertaining.
Amazing job on this piece GN. If more companies would do tours like this, it would some perspective into buyers of the work that it takes to produce such a product. There are things in this video, that I have never thought about when it comes to engineering a chip and it has given me a new perspective and appreciation to the hard work that goes into these chips. Hope more companies are willing to give access to tours like this.
Steve and GN team really did a great job with this documentary visit to AMD Austin! Thanks for all the hard work putting this together and releasing to your viewers!
Big kudos to GN for maintaining journalistic integrity while still being able to cultivate relationships like this. It can be a tightrope, but it is possible. You're consistently taking tech journalism to another level.
Unicorn mousepad at the begining.
Me: Okay I'll watch a nearly hour long documentary.
I appreciate the effort the team and the guests put into this. I also like that you went with the one hour long video.
This was awesome! Love this kind of documentary... You get to see some of the brilliant people behind the scenes who work so hard to bring us all this amazing tech powering our gaming and productivity... Our world.
And you guys do a fantastic job of producing and presenting the content to the community. Nice one guys! Top notch!
You guys are producing the best tech reporting I have ever seen. Thank you.
This is so cool ! It really personalizes all the hard work, genius and creativity that has made AMD so successful. The fact that AMD encorages and supports out of the box thinking/projects explains alot of how they were able to catch then beat Intel.
I personally would have preferred a 2-3 part series in smaller more digestible chunks as it’s a lot of information to take in during a single sitting. But hats off to the entire GN team for the work involved and AMD for accommodating!
here's the secret, break this video up into several sections. no need for a single sitting.
@@javojjaaf exactly. thats also why we have rewind / pause options to digest the info :)
I love that y'all make this feel like a good PBS documentary. Each time you guys do a major vid like this, I add it to my playlist of "Big Brain Videos". Thank you.
I love this style of content. Well done on this documentary, I would love to see more of these. Altough it will be difficult to follow up on this one!