some chip creators hide "easter eggs" inside their chips and there’s a whole culture around sleuthing and finding them

Happy Easter!

Been making semiconductors for over 20 years, haven't seen anything that artistic. But every time I have a chip under a microscope, I use the # 69 for all my alignments.

I have made numerous of such pictures. These are a sample of a snake around the chip carried by gnomes.

Where do I find this culture groups

This hits different with the recent news about planting backdoors in small pockets of Linux code

Found this in a solar inverter

I once opened up an old reciever from the 90s to find the self-portrait and signature of the Japanese engineer who designed the circuit board, inscribed into it.

No way That's genius Imma need me a microscope now

No serious semiconductor supplier does it these days because of defect density issues . This is what shrinking took from us 😭

Now thats a helluva easter egg! #HarryPotterObamaSonic10Inu