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Silicon Artwork
TeachingMachines writes "Photomicrographs are photographs taken through a microscope. A site called Molecular Expressions hosts a vast collection of photomicrographs, arranged in galleries. One gallery of interest is called the Silicon Zoo. While using a microscope to examine the silicon surfaces of processors and whatnot, investigators stumbled upon some renaissance artwork, dire warnings, and even some advertising that may be etched into your computer's silicon. Douglas Adams would have been happy to find this one. (from the Silicon Scriptures collection). This "EULA" probably has lawyers jumping for joy. An image on this page will give you a rough idea of how big the artwork actually is."
New Total Information Awareness chip?
~ Whence do you come, slayer of men, or where are you going, conqueror of space?
Yes...
I wonder if current systems have a similar EULA?
"They redundantly repeated themselves over and over again incessantly without end ad infinitum" -- ibid.
Where are the Pam Anderson links?
I've seen this sort of thing before, you'd be amazed what you can find. I even once saw a drawing of Dilbert on one. It was quite good, actually.
I am a filthy pirate.
those are from the days when chips had 1 or 2 layers of metal on them. These days it's more normal to put power and ground planes on the top hiding all the pretty stuff underneath
Any suitable mirrors up yet? I got to see one picture of Milhouse and now the server is smoking.
There are 10 kinds of people in the world; those that understand binary and those that do not.
Uh-oh, looks like the Los Alamos NHMFL at FSU has been taken down... is that considered an act of terrorism?!?
I prefer my 'artwork' to be natural, not silicon enhanced.
I don't have a sig...Do you??
Man this just goes boom in a fly over my head...Never have I had to look up so many words in the dictionary from a slashdot news blurb.
I'm told you are what you eat, does that mean I can be you by tomorrow with some A1?
An Indian-American Hindu committed to non-violent thought/speech/action alarmed by the global explosion of radical Islam
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Isn't this article a dupe? I know I've seen this stuff before...
The Humblest Mollusk on the Net
I prefer my artwork to be of Silicone, rather than Silicon. First of all, you don't need a microscope to appreciate it. Secondly, depending on where you live, you can appreciate it freely (and possibly even openly) on the beach or even in a gentleman's club up-close!
Karma: NaN
When you look at the pictures, it appears that there are no images on the silicon, but after seeing it about 15 times this morning, it looks like that the pictures are there. Initially, I was like "what a dumbass", but now, no matter what is on there, it's done.
This poor silicon is never gonna live this one down.
It's hard to believe that's how Micronians are made. Why don't we see it right now by having you both kiss one another?
Here.
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Last night. But isn't this about the 8th time this has been posted on slashdot? Oh well some people might have missed it. The coolest thing is when the guy who does the site contacted SGI and asked if they'd put the Florida State Seminoles logo on one of their CPU's and they did!
Not personally, but my good friend Mr. Wayback does here.
Here
mirror
The mirror mostly works. Some of the images are broken.
The best chip "easter egg" I've seen was on the Intel P3 die which said something like "Microsoft Sucks" on it. The engineer responsible was fired if I remember correctly.
When all else fails, run.
Reminds me of those Intel engineers who got canned for putting bill sux on the Pentium microchip. ;)
My God, it's Full of Source!
OUTSIDE_IP=$(dig +short my.ip @outsideip.net)
Do I get Obesessive Whiny Nerd With No Life bragging rights? Hemos posted this five years ago. That seems like it ought to be well over the statute of limitations, though...
What I'm listening to now on Pandora...
That brings 'Where's Waldo?' a freaking new level of difficulty.
I saw the story and though - that's a dupe! After searching back 3 years I was convinced that I saw it elsewhere. I stand corrected.
I only just realized that I have been visiting Slashdot for over five years now.
Whilst lovesick in college, I wrote my initials "+" my girlfriend's on a microchip.
When she later dumped me, I was glad it was only a hundred microns across...
Someone needs to cut the "Bush Asshole Mosaic" into some new military silicon... Let's put that money to good use!
A couple of years ago I remember I found an article about artwork being part of the manufacturing process for Irix processors.
:-)
They stopped doing it because it was not economically advantageous, however.
I stripped the CPUs out of two Indies I had back then to have my own micro digital art collection
A few years, I was told that AMD had a Texas one on one of their CPU chips? Is this true? I have not been able to find this one.
:)
Thank you in advance.
Ant(Dude) @ Quality Foraged Links (AQFL.net) & The Ant Farm (antfarm.ma.cx / antfarm.home.dhs.org).
http://www.chipworks.com/art/siliconart.htm
that link should still work. at least until a million of you all hit it. oh well, props to the first 1,000.
I thought I had read a post about this in the distant past. Of course, I had better thngs to do than to track down the actual post ;-) So although I am an obsessive, whiny nerd I must have more of a life than you, otter.
JK of course.
It is not enough to succeed, others must fail. - Gore Vidal
Still though, I can't help but wonder how much time Bill bashers spent trying to find this on silicon... ;)
There's no wrong way, to eat a Rhesus...
Have mercy, this poor server is a little Wintel box running IIS 5 on Win2k!
I'm on FSU's campus in my office and through our LAN can't BARELY even reach the poor piece of fried silicon art we're creating on that machine right now! Perhaps they'll scan the smoldering processor from that box soon and show us a big /. image etched right on it ;)
-Joe
If we're all god's children, what's so special about Jesus? - Jimmy Carr
what pervert modded the tubgirl link up??
"We have got to make Stan understand the importance of voting, because he'll definitely vote for our guy." - South Park
yes most defently
We substituted the coffee Slashdot normally drinks with "Sandoz Crystals", Lets see if they notice the difference
I'm from the "Dime Generation" myself.
On the other hand I also remember what we got payed in those days. Comes to about the same thing; and we didn't have 2 litre bottles for a buck.
You had to pull the bottle out of the machine just right too, or you lost your dime. I always hated that. Or the cup machines, you had to watch to make sure the cup came down properly or you just watched your soda spray all over the place.
Ah the good old days, immortalized in invisible etchings.
"Hey sweet thing, wanna seem my etchings? Bring your scanning electron microscope over sometime."
Somehow that just doesn't sound right.
KFG
(P.S. For those that haven't seen the pages this post is not offtopic.)
OK: I got a few of the images. They're on my website. If you have missing images, or mirrors of your own, post in reply, or email to me, and I'll put pictures or pointers as appropriate on my page.
Free Software: Like love, it grows best when given away.
When my dad was getting his PhD at VA Tech (he finished up in '91 or '92 I think), one of the guys in his lab group was Bill Bender. I don't recall exactly what his field of expertise was, but I think it involved lasers. And apparently also making his own circuits. He had a maginified pic of one up at his desk and his "signature" mark on them was a bicycle. He was big into triathlons, so the bike was a reference to that I suppose.
IIRC, one of my favorite books, Acts of the Apostles also references the concept that there is usually some sort of artwork on chips, put there by the designers.
There are some odd things afoot now, in the Villa Straylight.
My first time as a karma whore... here's a link you can click on:
http://www.chipworks.com/art/siliconart.htm
I actually used to work with some of these folks. We used to see all sorts of cool stuff.
Signatures are a waste of bandwi (buffering...)
The picuture of Dilbert is included in the second image gallery from Chipworks silicon art. It also shows up on an ICE poster
Signatures are a waste of bandwi (buffering...)
A friend of mine engraved a proposal to his (now wife) on a microchip he was fabricating. I'll try to get permission to post the micrograph.
Look at the second last line of this close-up.
It reads, "Unix is a regist". SCO Lawyers should be very busy trying to read this!
The silicon zoo page is so old and busted.
Here's a dose of new hotness: Chipworks
How these guys can reverse engineer in the day of DCMA astounds me. Speaking of greyscale images are interesting.. And I'll hint people towards looking at a Transmeta chip.
You do understand that these images are copyright them, and they explicitly say not to mirror them?
I hereby place the above post in the public domain.
Yes, the artwork is great but their stories about the artwork are not necessarily accurate to any degree. And they apparently ignore any comments and corrections sent them about their stories.
Sure, look at the pretty pictures but don't believe the stories with them are all true.