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Ken Shirriff

Here's a photo of the Pentium die with main functional blocks labeled. In this photo, the three layers of metal wiring almost completely hide the underlying silicon. 5/6

A die photo of the Pentium processor. It consists of a complex pattern of golden and reddish rectangular regions. I've labeled the main functional blocks: the 8K code cache and 8K data cache on the left. The main integer execution unit is in the middle with the floating point unit to the right. Instruction fetching and decoding is at the top.
23 November at 20:53 | Open on oldbytes.space
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Ken Shirriff
Tuckers Nuts Resist😈!

@kenshirriff
🥥 Fascinating stuff, Ken.
This has the feel of archeology at a microscopic level. The photos have the feel of pre-Columbian art in Mexico/South America. 🥥

23 November at 22:45 | Open on mstdn.social
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