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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.

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