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potato-peeler ◴[] No.45668552[source]
Realistically, are these enough to replicate the chips?
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1. pbw ◴[] No.45668932[source]
To capture the individual transistors on a modern CPU, you'd need an image tens of terabytes in size, and it'd have to be captured by an electron microscope, not an optical image. And even that wouldn't let you see all the layers. Some of the very old CPUs, I'm not sure what resolution would be required.