Thread: Central processing units below the microscope – literally

What I love most about picture taking is the path it can depict aspects of the globe that are invisible to regular human view - timelapse, x-ray, macro, lenses with a broad angle than the eye - are interesting. Tom Royal, an former colleague of me, who just functions at PC Active, has found a microscope and assuming few excellent pictures of a variety of techy bits and pieces with it.

The pictures are absorbing and expose few surprising details - such as the truth the pins of an Athlon central processing unit are really created from 2 different stuffs, as you can evidently see here:




So well high quality pictures, but to really appear at the gates, you acquired to assume off the protective silicon cap, fairly much impossible, excellent to only acquire a custom 1 constructed.

BBC's unseeable Globe through will be on tonight or tomorrow. it will characteristic our Southampton University's clean room and electronics below microscope. have a appear, should be well, it is registered in the excellent university in the globe :
The complete set is well valuable assuring out on Flickr, and you can too see how Tom and his colleague Anthony assumed the images with this annotated picture on Flickr.