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Re:Every processor die anyone has photographed and given away by josh-wrale on Saturday November 07, 2026 @02:18PM (#50407178)
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Re:Every processor die anyone has photographed and given away by dgfl on Saturday November 07, 2026 @03:23PM (#50407719)
Not sure if regular tomography would work, but this has been done at high enough resolution with some fancier techniques (ptychography): https://www.nature.com/articles/s41586-024-07615-6

I would imagine this is of decent interest to people reverse engineering chip designs, or doing failure analysis, so it’s possible someone might actually be trying this at scale.

Re:Every processor die anyone has photographed and given away by Arubis on Saturday November 07, 2026 @06:01PM (#50408870)
You can destructively deprocess dies, removing a layer at a time and imaging at each layer. 20ish years ago you could still do this with a polishing wheel and a fine slurry; don’t know if that’s still viable.