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But you better have a microscope to see them!
https://www.npr.org/2024/04/16/1242...n-doodles-engineers-microchip?ft=nprml&f=1002
https://www.npr.org/2024/04/16/1242...n-doodles-engineers-microchip?ft=nprml&f=1002
Even Engineers Doodle -- on the ICs they design
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Yeah, whenever we used to de-cap another manufacturer's IC to figure out what went wrong, we would always look around the IC surface to see if they'd left any logos or similar. Every once in a while you might find the project team member names or some interesting symbol... 
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If you ever see similar doodles inside some random prototype ASIC, you now know where they came from.
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Ok, that’s pretty cool. Kudos to the people behind them.
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berkeman said:Yeah, whenever we used to de-cap another manufacturer's IC to figure out what went wrong, we would always look around the IC surface to see if they'd left any logos or similar. Every once in a while you might find the project team member names or some interesting symbol...
for sure
gosh, it's been years since i last did that
i have been reinspired tp decap a few more chips