Anyone tried this?

Just a curious question... has anyone here taken an old processor from Intel, Athlon or Cyrix, stripped off the outer covering to expose the microscopic traces and looked at it under a top-side illuminated microscope capable of 400x magnification?

Reason I ask is that after discovering a website that deals with microchip art... or pictures that are stuck in by engineers in the empty parts of the silicon... I had an old 486 processor I decided to rip apart. And damn if I didn't fine a little picture of a gremlin, at 400x magnification.

Anyone tried looking at any other old AMD or intel chips lately? Apparently, some of the athlon chips had a gun firing a bullet, as well as other pics, according to some websites...

Well, it's a way to pass the time. Nuff said.

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I plugged my ram into my motherboard, but unplugged it when I smelled cooked mutton.

Huh, that's really interesting. I might have to try that if I can find a microscope. We have several old CPUs around at work.

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At fujitsu where I worked, they had the amd trademark on every layer, because fujitsu and amd were in a flash partnership. They look totally different under a scanning electron microscope, or ultra high mag optics.


Very fun job, sad to see them shut the fab down :-(.

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