Microscope photo of a CPU die

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21 Comments

kersploosh@sh.itjust.works · 48 pts · 1y

It's crazy to me that the feature sizes on chips are smaller than the wavelength of visible light. Chip designers have not been able to inspect their work under a regular microscope for decades.

ptz@dubvee.org · 46 pts · 1y (2 replies)

The internet has ruined me. I spent way too long looking for Sadaam.

deegeese@sopuli.xyz · 28 pts · 1y (1 reply)

Check the floating point registers.

nihilist_hippie@lemmy.ca · 12 pts · 1y

🤣🤣🤣

Weirdfish@lemmy.world · 42 pts · 1y

Sorry, no, that's my factorio starter base.

caut_R@lemmy.world · 28 pts · 1y (1 reply)

A fair amount more interesting than mildly to me, it’s crazy „we“ came up with a way to make them this densely packed

troyunrau@lemmy.ca · 16 pts · 1y

We taught the rocks to thing

Arigion@feddit.org · 26 pts · 1y (2 replies)

Why did the CPU die?

davidgro@lemmy.world · 10 pts · 1y (1 reply)

Someone made it jmp out of windows.

Shou@lemmy.world · 4 pts · 1y

Damnit. The Russians are after our computers too!

MoreFPSmorebetter@lemmy.zip · 21 pts · 1y (1 reply)

All of that so a bunch of 1s and 0s can show me boobs whenever I want. Man the human race is wild.

exasperation@lemm.ee · 10 pts · 1y

We etched special runes onto polished sand so that we control how lightning moves through it, so that it could seem like an intelligent mind of its own.

univers3man@lemmy.world · 15 pts · 1y (1 reply)

This reminds me of the old, I think Windows 95, wall paper but updated for today.

https://i.redd.it/43oqpw28f1s61.jpg

nyan_cat@lemmy.world · 5 pts · 1y

Now that's a throwback

nick@midwest.social · 11 pts · 1y

That’s my factorio factory

unexposedhazard@discuss.tchncs.de · 8 pts · 1y (2 replies)

I could be wrong here but the chips i usually look at under the scope are not quite this colorful, so i think this one is post processed. Its a pretty wide shot so this should still just be an optical microscope not an electron one.

wewbull@feddit.uk · 4 pts · 1y

Yes. This looks more like a screenshot of physical design software to me.

rothaine@lemm.ee · 2 pts · 1y

Overlaid with the VLSI design maybe? Cadence is pretty colorful

5714@lemmy.dbzer0.com · 5 pts · 1y

complex rock

tonyn@lemmy.ml · 5 pts · 1y

Defragging

Daze@sh.itjust.works · 2 pts · 1y

This looks like a preview of what would be the latest Posy video. Fascinating!