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Picture of a thing, but what is the thing? (lemmy.world)
submitted 9 months ago by Fabriek@lemmy.world to c/whatisthisthing@lemmy.world
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Sorry for the bad quality.

My grandfather had this in his office. He worked as a computer engineer so I initally thought it was a zoomed-in picture of a computer chip or something, but maybe it is something large.

He's not alive anymore so I can't ask him. If somebody can help me out, that would be great.

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[-] thirteene@lemmy.world 4 points 9 months ago

As others mentioned it looks like a heat sink, they create a lot of surface area and blow air through to the device in order to help dissapate heat and prevent the device from overheating.

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