A first quick and dirty die-shot of the PS5 APU (better SWIR image will follow). It looks like some Zen 2 FPU parts are missing.
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Real GA102 Ampere Die-Shot, very close to the official rendering.
New Die-Shots
XBox One X with eye catching snake patterns?
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Intel Core i9-13900K | Raptor Lake ES
23,413 x 10,791 [252,650mm²]
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Thank you goes to for his donation
NexGen Nx586 Processor
Die-Size:
10,971mm x 11,219mm = 123,084mm²
w/o scribelines
10,724mm x 10,963mm = 117,567mm²
The NexGen processor was first manufactured in IBM's 0.5µm CMOS process node. This chip here was already manufactured in 0,44µm (440nm).
BE-S1000 from Baikal Electronics, 48 Core Arm Cortex-A75 CPU for HPC
CPU manufactured at TSMC with 16nm. For the next few years, probably one of the last Russian CPUs with modern process node.
Alder Lake-S in high-res (unfortunately, it's just 6P+0E chip)
Well, thermal imaging to see bouncing cores escalated quickly. Ryzen 5 7600 IOD broke into 5 pieces, not sure why but temperatures and power consumption was okay. After 60 seconds of cinebench single core test, image artifacts appeared and then there was a crash.
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Zen4 CCD, Core Area close up with L2 Cache, 2.85mm x 1.35mm, Image Size ~43000x20000, 2229 single pics, 80x Lens
New Zen2 pic (gigapixel image)
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and a pretty neat site for large die-shots in google maps style: misdake.github.io/ChipAnnotation
I did not expect that the structures of N5 on Zen4 would be so barely visible (low contrast).
pic number:
1. Camera with macro lens
2. Microscope 5x lens with external light
3. Microscope 5x epi illumination (brightfield DIC)
4. Microscope 20x epi illumination (brightfield DIC)
Just for the fun, various HBM/Interposer close-up images
old and new pictures:
flic.kr/s/aHBqjzwHrq
Delicious caramelized after 450°C hotplate and hidden AMD Logo on the Zen4 CCD
Some Elbrus-8S pictures. Big thanks goes to and his cpu donation. Who knows the language is also welcome to take a look in his newest video.
flic.kr/s/aHBqjzwaTZ
Cannon Lake, Intels 10nm Core i3-8121U
As you can see, Cannon Lake with its Palm Cove cores is in fact mostly just a 10nm shrink of Skylake.
860MPixel image on flickr:
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Just a quick look under the hood. Lenovo IdeaPad with AMD Ryzen 3 4300U (Renoir).
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The first GeForce* for comparison
*2.5 decades of inflation
Good find on Vogons to enable the full amount of 256kb L2 cache for AMDs old K6-2+ CPU.
SUCCESSFUL K6-2+ to K6-3+ Full Cache Enable Mod: vogons.org/viewtopic.php?
#RETROCOMPUTER #AMD
Again, some new macro close-ups of the Pascal GP100 and its HBM chiplets.
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The foldable OVP of the 7800X3D is a very nice background!
Got a few CPUs from Ebay. The packaging gave me a smile. Very nice!👍
Unreleased last VIA Centaur CNS Chip. Scratched PCB? Try Infrared!
Thanks to for providing this CPU!
This is what happens when you try to boot up an old CPU without a cooler. Have to go now and grab a new CPU...😅
RIP #AMD #Athlon64 #Newcastle
Still no die-shots of the Zen dual core Dali/Raven2 APU
asking for it, so here it is: AMD Athlon 3000G
Rocketlake-S (i5-11400), preparation for some thermalcam tests. Copper spacer only for boot and windows start.
TIM cleaning with HCl, liquid rubber doesn't protect the caps very well, anyway the CPU is still running without all these tiny caps :-)
Random shot of Athlon XP dices.
Image contains a few chips of my very first attempts to create die-shots. Almost 8 years ago.
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Luckily, sent another Centaur CPU. Again problems with etching but then everything went well. Here are some pics. flic.kr/s/aHBqjzXMjT
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There will be no more pictures of the Via Centaur
Something went wrong and the chip lost its colors. The chip looked quite good in the meantime and could even have been put under the microscope but my impatience and the urge for perfection drove me to etch the chip again..
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Transplanted a Athlon Thunderbird to an Argon cartridge.
Will it work? Will there be L3 Cache now? Yes it works, but it looks like the Athlon Thunderbird has only access to 128KiB L1$ and 64KiB L2$.
#AMD #Athlon #Retro #Frankenstein
New infrared (NIR) die-shot of Navi 10
Equals 1:1 to the official low-res images
There will be no more pictures of the Via Centaur
Something went wrong and the chip lost its colors. The chip looked quite good in the meantime and could even have been put under the microscope but my impatience and the urge for perfection drove me to etch the chip again..
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It always goes better. Higher resolution stitch of a Skylake core :) flic.kr/p/2iUU1DG
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Via Centaur Technology,
unreleased Centaur CHA
199,59mm² | 16nm TSMC
- 8x CNS Cores
- 16 MB L3 Cache
- NCore AI co-processor
- 16 MB SRAM
- 44x PCIe 3.0
- 4x DDR-3200
- IO Links for dual socket
- approximately 65W
Renoir again: Ryzen 4000 at 45W, rip off cooler, cpu continue workload
youtu.be/P0Az6JDoosQ
This impressed me a lot and make me curious! Will it work with a overclocked cpu too (95W or more)?
Core i5-11400 without heatsink. Not as nice as the older Ryzen Tests, because Intels RocketLake is optimized for high power consumption and the silicon is still opaque. Multithreading with dynamic clocks not possible. More infos in the video description youtu.be/LmKm9t9-amQ
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Generated with DALL·E some shiny silicon wafers. Partly very strange pictures come out, these are the better ones
- Hold on hand a 300mm silicon wafer
- A person took a bite out of a 300mm silicon wafer
- Closeup of a shiny and colorful silicon wafer with rectangle structures
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Chips & Pizza?
A lot of broken graphic cards has accumulated over time. So, today was desoldering day and in the basement is still a box with dozens of older cards.😱
Musou Black "Worlds Blackest Paint"
Dark paint around the GPU for better contrast. I do not know what I expected, maybe something darker black?
Note to self: not recommended for short wave infrared
#MusouBlack #SWIR
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P-Core with 2MB L2$ --> 8,080mm²
P-Core w/o the new L2$ --> 7,429mm²
P-Core with L3$ --> 10,068mm²
E-Core w/o L2$ --> 1,588mm²
E-Core with L2$ --> 2,570mm²
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This convolute is waiting here for a while now. Thanks to for providing these CPUs. There will be some more die-shots for sure.
I am completely surprised by sodium hydrogencarbonate (NaHCO3). Have never used it to etch microchips but together with H2O2 this gives me amazing easy etching results.
GP100 was etched with it and Athlon64 with SOI process works also well.🙀
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Challenge accepted, maybe no problem for NIR and I guess it's not impossible to get a great colorful die-shot too.
Received today a turntable from Amazon. China product, power supply exploded immediately when plugged in and fall apart. I still feel the explosion in my hand but fortunately have not been injured.
That has been a lesson to me, don't trust cheap products anymore.
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DGCCD -> Durango CCD (Zen4)
BRCCD -> Breckenridge CCD (Zen3)
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Hello little Argon 500, would you like to reach 1Ghz?
Not sure at all how much such an argon can achieve. I am very curious to find out. Hope a cloned golden finger device with a water block helps. Vcore goes up to 2.05V
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Cracked chip due to high temperature caused by failed overtemp protection or short circuit due to overvoltage caused by driver problems? A long time ago, didn't you show also a chip like this? Have found something like this only once on the PCB of a defective RX6800 from Ebay.
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The marked areas in the L3$ are not stitching mistakes. These areas really look like this and have confused me a bit after image stitching.😅
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The Nx686 is the successor and was demonstrated in October 1995, but never reached the market. AMD bought NexGen and after a redesign the Nx686 appeared as AMDs K6. It would be nice to see what the Nx686 prototype looks like from the inside. We will probably never know.
Navi 14 (24 CUs, 8 PCIe Lanes and half Mem Interface)
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Nemez could be right with his tweet. Here is a short flyby over the supposed TSVs with a maximum magnifikation of 800x (80x10). The orange squares have a size of ≈3x3µm. However, it's significantly larger than 0.9µm...
youtu.be/bWzpTH-Zspg
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Official number is also correct (without wafer cut roads).
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Infrared clearly show all pcb traces🙂
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Yes, of course! What happened? Crushed by the cooler / thermalshock?