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.
this post was submitted on 24 Mar 2025
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The internet has ruined me. I spent way too long looking for Sadaam.
Check the floating point registers.
🤣🤣🤣
Sorry, no, that's my factorio starter base.
A fair amount more interesting than mildly to me, it’s crazy „we“ came up with a way to make them this densely packed
We taught the rocks to thing
Why did the CPU die?
Someone made it jmp out of windows.
Damnit. The Russians are after our computers too!
All of that so a bunch of 1s and 0s can show me boobs whenever I want. Man the human race is wild.
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.
This reminds me of the old, I think Windows 95, wall paper but updated for today.
Now that's a throwback
That’s my factorio factory
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.
Yes. This looks more like a screenshot of physical design software to me.
Overlaid with the VLSI design maybe? Cadence is pretty colorful
Defragging
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This looks like a preview of what would be the latest Posy video. Fascinating!