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<pie_> "A friend worked for a company that made IC's. Every few months, their yields would go down to about zero. Analysis of the failures showed all sorts of organic material was introduced in the process, but they couldn't figure out where. One evening, someone was working late and came into the lab. There he found the maintainence crew cooking pizza in the chip curing ovens! "
<mjgardes> yum.
<pie_> would those pizzas have been safe to eat?
* pie_ is n00b
<Sync> highly unlikely that that happened, there are no real ovens that are large enough to make pizza with
<Sync> resists are cured on a plate
<Sync> and for everything else you have very high temps
<Sync> there is a possibility that they were using batch ovens to dry racks after wet chemistry but I never heard about such a thing
<pie_> inb4 it happens with the 400mm technology (obv would never happen in real life)
<pie_> hah. that would be funny. lets open an automated pizza shop in silicon valley
<pie_> with manufacturing hardware.
* pie_ goes back to panicking about physics final
<Sync> should be easy
<pie_> woah...panic is spelled panic not panick, but panicking is not spelled panicing?
<superkuh> English is a magical language.
<pie_> its effectively a native language for me but i never noticed this
<pie_> i dont remember anything else like that bothering me yet
<pie_> thats like spelling magic as magick
<mjgardes> I have ovens at work that are large enough to make pizzas in
<mjgardes> deep dish is out of the question though
<mjgardes> and they would significantly shorten your lifespan with all the nasty shit we use in those ovens
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<pie_> mjgardes: i expected as much :P
<pie_> though "maintenance workers" and semiconductor manufacturing doesnt feel like it would imply untrained maintenance workers :/
<pie_> but maybe this was the 90s or something :P
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