How to "open" a microchip and what's inside?

Re:How to "open" a microchip and what's inside? by frdgr on Friday March 08, 2013 @03:03AM (#5342458)

Beautiful!! Someone should make large posters out of this.

The process gives it an artsy mechanical feel, as if we could see the sign of time and efforts these little things put in computations.

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Re:How to "open" a microchip and what's inside? by chiph on Friday March 08, 2013 @04:31PM (#5345861)

Intel used to make posters available (back in the Pentium-II days) and they were really cool. I used to have one that I had to leave behind at a previous job.

In the current copyright environment, I'm not sure they could be made available. Which stinks, as just looking at them & trying to figure out what the sections did (ALU, cache, registers, etc) is sort of inspiring.

Intel, AMD, Freescale, etc. should partner up with art.com or someone else who can print out large posters (and ship them wrinkle-free) Maybe donate any profits to a engineering-for-teens program of some kind.

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Re:How to "open" a microchip and what's inside? by sciurus on Friday March 08, 2013 @12:50PM (#5344719)

I don't know about posters, but there is similar imagery in "Core Memory: A Visual Survey of Vintage Computers"

http://www.amazon.com/Core-Memory-Visual-Vintage-Computers/d...

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