Molecular Expressions: Unseen Artwork On Your Computer's Chips

[Brian]

"Ever wonder what's lurking within the dark corners, nooks and crannies of your computer? Is some gremlin responsible for all those crashes---you know, the ones that happen when you are trying to save that critical document you've been working on so diligently for the past three hours? We wondered too, so we took a look to see what we could find. And guess what? When we put the computer chips under the microscope we found some very interesting creatures hiding there.

Our search has led to a new collection of photomicrographs (photographs taken through a microscope) featuring many of the interesting silicon creatures and other doodling scribbled onto integrated circuits by engineers when they were designing computer chip masks."




"This is a very high magnification view of what appears to be a hummingbird etched into the silicon on a Hewlett-Packard PA-RISC 7000-series microprocessor wafer."


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[Joe Public]

Heh, that's pretty cool!

Didn't know about that.