Hidden warning message found in Samsung’s Galaxy tablet(chipworks.com)
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Hidden warning message found in Samsung’s Galaxy tablet
http://www.chipworks.com/en/technical-competitive-analysis/resources/technology-blog/2011/02/hidden-warning-message-found-in-samsungs-galaxy-tablet/
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I must protest. 2 microns is not ridiculously small. This, built by some former colleagues, is ridiculously small:
http://www.news.cornell.edu/releases/july97/guitar.ltb.html
Though it is - god help me - nearly fifteen years old so presumably it is no longer that ridiculous. [1] These things probably ship inside every iPhone by now, or something.
Of course, none of this banter should lead you to conclude that the OP's chip art is any less than awesome. Remember, it's not the microscopicness of the equipment that matters, but how you use it. The colors are a very nice touch, for example.
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[1] And I'm not even going to talk about those AFM folks, or the self-assembled nanomaterials folks. They are just too ridiculous.
http://www.news.cornell.edu/releases/july97/guitar.ltb.html
Though it is - god help me - nearly fifteen years old so presumably it is no longer that ridiculous. [1] These things probably ship inside every iPhone by now, or something.
Of course, none of this banter should lead you to conclude that the OP's chip art is any less than awesome. Remember, it's not the microscopicness of the equipment that matters, but how you use it. The colors are a very nice touch, for example.
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[1] And I'm not even going to talk about those AFM folks, or the self-assembled nanomaterials folks. They are just too ridiculous.
Those strings are fairly large compared to modern transistors. In September 2010, Hynix began mass producing 20 nm Class Technology 64 Gb NAND Flash - Hynix Press Release. This works out to ~20nm before the same pattern repeats compared to the 50 micron width of those strings.
I didn't downvote, but the article really isn't that long, and contains pictures.
I like summary comments. They let me know if something's even remotely worth looking at before having to click through.
Considering the rather flamboyant and slightly misleading title of the article, I can see why a summary could be useful.
When most blog articles are so short, it's difficult not so see this as a sign of our lamentably dwindling attention spans. Some of the best articles are five thousand words or more! Putting summaries below five hundred word articles encourages a world where long form articles are perceived as laborious.
I can see the argument, but I disagree. What if I wasn't in the mood for humor / look at this cool thing? What if I were interested in legal troubles, and not pretty pictures?
Besides, the point of summary comments on short articles is to pre-filter, not post-filter. Without something like that, I have no way of knowing if it'll be a tweet or a novel, and at the time I didn't have time for much longer than a tweet.
Besides, the point of summary comments on short articles is to pre-filter, not post-filter. Without something like that, I have no way of knowing if it'll be a tweet or a novel, and at the time I didn't have time for much longer than a tweet.
Microprocessor easter eggs aren't new.
Here are some of the existing menagerie...
http://micro.magnet.fsu.edu/creatures/
http://micro.magnet.fsu.edu/chipshots/dec/index.html
http://simh.trailing-edge.com/dsarchive.html
And then there's the classic "VAX - When you care enough to steal the very best" that was etched (in Cyrillic) on the some of the MicroVAX chips:
http://micro.magnet.fsu.edu/creatures/pages/russians.html
Here are some of the existing menagerie...
http://micro.magnet.fsu.edu/creatures/
http://micro.magnet.fsu.edu/chipshots/dec/index.html
http://simh.trailing-edge.com/dsarchive.html
And then there's the classic "VAX - When you care enough to steal the very best" that was etched (in Cyrillic) on the some of the MicroVAX chips:
http://micro.magnet.fsu.edu/creatures/pages/russians.html
From your VAX link - it was written in Cyrillic, because it was meant to be read by the inevitable Russian reverse-engineers. Russia lagged on chip design, so they stole US chip designs for their own computer industry, and told everybody they were original.
Interestingly, it's a word by word translation of the English phrase so it doesn't make any sense in Russian. I don't know if those reverse engineers would have guessed what it meant.
The cartoon chicken is Calimero: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Calimero
And the dragon is Grisù: http://it.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gris%C3%B9_(serie_animata)
Both are Italian cartoons created by the Pagot brothers. Probably they have some fans among Samsung engineers :)
Both are Italian cartoons created by the Pagot brothers. Probably they have some fans among Samsung engineers :)
The dragon wants to become a firefighter =).
It's an Italian cartoon and it was also popular in Germany.
It seems that there is no English wikipedia page for this one.
http://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Grisu,_der_kleine_Drache
It seems that there is no English wikipedia page for this one.
http://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Grisu,_der_kleine_Drache
The man playing drums looks very much like Conan O'brien to me. Just saying.
a smiling hat-wearing hippo/dragon/whatever,
Aka grisu the firefighter.
and last but not least was some silicon art showing a baby duck
Aka Calimero.
Both popular series produced in the late 70s and shown in the 80s and 90s.
I wonder wheter I'm already too old or too young to know these..
Aka grisu the firefighter.
and last but not least was some silicon art showing a baby duck
Aka Calimero.
Both popular series produced in the late 70s and shown in the 80s and 90s.
I wonder wheter I'm already too old or too young to know these..
Is it just my copy of Firefox, or does everyone have to manage to hover over and click on a 1x1 dot in order to change the images? Not very easy on a touchpad.
Seems like a "Previous | Next" UI would have been much easier to use.
Seems like a "Previous | Next" UI would have been much easier to use.
Edit: Yeesh, what's with the downvotes? I'm just providing a summary for other people who check the comments first, to catch the gist of an article quickly.