On Thursday 10 Apr 2008 9:12:16 pm ashok _ wrote: > Imagine a friend serves you an especially > delicious cake and offers to share the recipe. > Seems like something you could make, until you > get a look at the ingredients: The eggs must come > from the same farm where your friend got hers. > Flour, ground from the same crop of wheat. Water > from the same tap. > > That's how Intel makes its computer chips: It > takes recipes cooked up by its Hillsboro > engineers, then copies them exactly at factories > in such far-flung locales as Arizona, New Mexico > and Israel.
Actually this sounds like typical corporate propaganda via an advertorial, of which one sees a lot in unexpected places and ways. The only "proven" concrete example I have of this was the myth that the BBC (TV) always started its programs dead on time. That myth was built up by the use of an analog clock showing a few seconds before six o'clock in which the second hand ticked its way up to EXACTLY six PM when the six o'clock news would start, always, invariably and precisely at 6PM. However timed recordings of other programs showed that no other program ever started exactly on the dot. Don't know about computer chips but there is a lot of variation in lots of products that use the myth of quality and reliability. Buy a Mars bar in the UK and compare it with a Mars bar bought in the Gulf states or Thailand, or even a box of Dansk Butter (shudder) cookies bought in the Europe versus what is imported from Malaysia. shiv
