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Fun fact: in the early days of silicon wafer manufacturing (60s or 70s IIRC) they would randomly have yields crater for a few days each month. Eventually they

Fun fact: in the early days of silicon wafer manufacturing (60s or 70s IIRC) they would randomly have yields crater for a few days each month. Eventually they discovered yields were tanking when their female employee was on her period. Source: The Big Scoree

morkalork 3y ago
Why would yields be influenced by that?
- deleted 3y ago
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- jvanderbot 3y ago
  No idea. Maybe she stayed home?
- hobo_in_library 3y ago
  According to the book they "found that during their menstrual periods female lab workers secreted extra oil in their hands, ruining wafers"
YesThatTom2 3y ago
Related: one of the fake cancer cures that James Randi (“The Amazing Randi”) debunked didn’t have very good test results in December when a particular person would take vacation. She was very Christian and took the whole month off to prep for Christmas. She also felt that faking test data was ethical because in her heart of hearts she wanted the cure to work. When Randi showed that the data was faked in all months except when she was on vacation.
teddyh 3y ago
That sounds remarkably similar to many urban legends.
jacquesm 3y ago
Source link or bs.
- hobo_in_library 3y ago
  Dude, it was right there in my post https://www.amazon.com/Big-Score-Billion-Dollar-Silicon/dp/1953953166 https://www.amazon.com/Big-Score-Billion-Dollar-Silicon/dp/1...
  - jacquesm 3y ago
    That's not a source.
    - dredmorbius 3y ago
      No, it is a source. Not one that's immediately online per that link, though you can obtain it. You might also try: Open Library: <https://openlibrary.org/works/OL13358612W/The_big_score?edition=key%3A/books/OL21336636M https://openlibrary.org/works/OL13358612W/The_big_score?edit...> Library Genesis: <http://libgen.rs/book/index.php?md5=96525CFC8A6A7C3132A80D439227110F http://libgen.rs/book/index.php?md5=96525CFC8A6A7C3132A80D43...> A local library: <https://www.worldcat.org/search?q=au%3Amalone+ti%3Athe+big+score+silicon+valley https://www.worldcat.org/search?q=au%3Amalone+ti%3Athe+big+s...>
13of40 3y ago
The one I heard was that they had terrible yields until they figured out some guy was opening the packages in transit and hand counting the silicon wafers.

morkalork 3y ago

Why would yields be influenced by that?

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jvanderbot 3y ago
No idea. Maybe she stayed home?
hobo_in_library 3y ago
According to the book they "found that during their menstrual periods female lab workers secreted extra oil in their hands, ruining wafers"

YesThatTom2 3y ago

Related: one of the fake cancer cures that James Randi (“The Amazing Randi”) debunked didn’t have very good test results in December when a particular person would take vacation. She was very Christian and took the whole month off to prep for Christmas. She also felt that faking test data was ethical because in her heart of hearts she wanted the cure to work. When Randi showed that the data was faked in all months except when she was on vacation.

teddyh 3y ago

That sounds remarkably similar to many urban legends.

jacquesm 3y ago

Source link or bs.

hobo_in_library 3y ago
Dude, it was right there in my post https://www.amazon.com/Big-Score-Billion-Dollar-Silicon/dp/1953953166 https://www.amazon.com/Big-Score-Billion-Dollar-Silicon/dp/1...
- jacquesm 3y ago
  That's not a source.
  - dredmorbius 3y ago
    No, it is a source. Not one that's immediately online per that link, though you can obtain it. You might also try: Open Library: <https://openlibrary.org/works/OL13358612W/The_big_score?edition=key%3A/books/OL21336636M https://openlibrary.org/works/OL13358612W/The_big_score?edit...> Library Genesis: <http://libgen.rs/book/index.php?md5=96525CFC8A6A7C3132A80D439227110F http://libgen.rs/book/index.php?md5=96525CFC8A6A7C3132A80D43...> A local library: <https://www.worldcat.org/search?q=au%3Amalone+ti%3Athe+big+score+silicon+valley https://www.worldcat.org/search?q=au%3Amalone+ti%3Athe+big+s...>

13of40 3y ago

The one I heard was that they had terrible yields until they figured out some guy was opening the packages in transit and hand counting the silicon wafers.