--- On Mon, 3/12/12, jim s <jws at jwsss.com> wrote:
  Subject: Intel development process 
These look like wafer-probe cards.  They are used in laboratory and production chip
testers to interface to unpackaged wafers.  We had
a tester in-house at a former employer, and the probe cards looked very
similar to these.  Google for "wafer probe card".
--Bill