It's like watching a complicated RTS play out in real life, with a factory that's building itself, gigantic power management, miles-long corridors and pipeways, and dizzying internal orchestration. It's so much like it that there's an entire separate fully staffed control room for controlling those logistics where the involvement in control sounds to be about as complex as actually playing competitive Starcraft.
It is utterly fascinating to peek behind the curtain to not some glossy corporate press-release about how Intel is building more fabrication facilities, but have a frank and grounded look into even just the surface-level details of how something as intricate as a processor gets made. The discussion on how it was done in decades past just highlights all the more the amount of robust and largely automated processes that have clearly been necessary to maintain a competitive presence and continue to allow Intel to manufacture their own products when giant, independent mega-fabs like TSMC have taken over manufacturing for the vast majority of companies.
This documentary is well worth your time diving in to it, so do yourself a favor and give a look!
