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| First post | 2026-06-19 22:00 +0800 |
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Are chips more vulnerable to witchcraft than transisters? "Mr. Man-wai Chang" <toylet.toylet@gmail.com> - 2026-06-19 22:00 +0800
Re: Are chips more vulnerable to witchcraft than transisters? Paul <nospam@needed.invalid> - 2026-06-19 16:00 -0400
Re: Are chips more vulnerable to witchcraft than transisters? phoenix <j63840576@gmail.com> - 2026-06-19 18:40 -0600
Re: Are chips more vulnerable to witchcraft than transisters? Paul <nospam@needed.invalid> - 2026-06-20 02:40 -0400
Re: Are chips more vulnerable to witchcraft than transisters? "Mr. Man-wai Chang" <toylet.toylet@gmail.com> - 2026-06-20 11:49 +0800
Re: Are chips more vulnerable to witchcraft than transisters? Paul <nospam@needed.invalid> - 2026-06-20 02:48 -0400
Re: Are chips more vulnerable to witchcraft than transisters? "Mr. Man-wai Chang" <toylet.toylet@gmail.com> - 2026-06-20 18:17 +0800
Re: Are chips ... tilling pattern? magical seals? "Mr. Man-wai Chang" <toylet.toylet@gmail.com> - 2026-06-20 19:48 +0800
Re: Are chips ... tilling pattern? magical seals? Paul <nospam@needed.invalid> - 2026-06-20 10:48 -0400
Re: Are chips ... tilling pattern? magical seals? "Mr. Man-wai Chang" <toylet.toylet@gmail.com> - 2026-06-21 10:24 +0800
Re: Are chips ... tilling pattern? magical seals? Jeroen Belleman <jeroen@nospam.please> - 2026-06-20 20:14 +0200
Re: Are chips ... electronics runs on magic smoke?? "Mr. Man-wai Chang" <toylet.toylet@gmail.com> - 2026-06-21 10:18 +0800
Re: Are chips ... electronics runs on magic smoke?? Paul <nospam@needed.invalid> - 2026-06-21 06:34 -0400
Re: Are chips ... electronics runs on magic smoke?? "Mr. Man-wai Chang" <toylet.toylet@gmail.com> - 2026-06-21 19:34 +0800
Re: Are chips ... electronics runs on magic smoke?? Paul <nospam@needed.invalid> - 2026-06-22 01:53 -0400
Re: Are chips ... electronics dies & releaas "magic smoke"?? "Mr. Man-wai Chang" <toylet.toylet@gmail.com> - 2026-06-22 14:09 +0800
Re: Are chips more vulnerable to witchcraft than transisters? Woozy Song <suzyw0ng@outlook.com> - 2026-06-21 17:49 +0800
Re: Are chips more vulnerable to witchcraft than transisters? "Mr. Man-wai Chang" <toylet.toylet@gmail.com> - 2026-06-23 20:59 +0800
Re: Are chips more vulnerable to witchcraft than transisters? phoenix <j63840576@gmail.com> - 2026-06-23 10:20 -0600
Re: Are chips more vulnerable to ... the Force? "Mr. Man-wai Chang" <toylet.toylet@gmail.com> - 2026-06-24 00:28 +0800
Re: Are chips more vulnerable to ... the Force? pitter_smith <70620b9261c622c2c6443cb36988dd78336be458fd9f13499dd358523b105d91@example.com> - 2026-07-05 04:30 +0000
Re: Are chips more vulnerable to ... the Force? "Mr. Man-wai Chang" <toylet.toylet@gmail.com> - 2026-07-05 13:00 +0800
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| From | "Mr. Man-wai Chang" <toylet.toylet@gmail.com> |
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| Date | 2026-06-19 22:00 +0800 |
| Subject | Are chips more vulnerable to witchcraft than transisters? |
| Message-ID | <1113i2e$3c8no$1@toylet.eternal-september.org> |
Are chips more vulnerable to witchcraft as they got thinner and narrower?
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| From | Paul <nospam@needed.invalid> |
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| Date | 2026-06-19 16:00 -0400 |
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| In reply to | #18186 |
On Fri, 6/19/2026 10:00 AM, Mr. Man-wai Chang wrote: > > Are chips more vulnerable to witchcraft as they got thinner and narrower? > They're generally scale-invariant. The scribbling on them is smaller, but then we put more of the scribbling, so they end up having the same X-Y dimensions for the price. If the dimensions X-Y were to be made too small, it would make the devices too hard to cool. It helps to make them a "decent size" in the X-Y, so the heat sink works for us. You cannot make them too much thinner or they would snap from mechanical stresses. The chips convert electricity into heat, and as a side effect, they do your taxes. And yes, they are pretty amazing. At one time, the scribbling was so large inside, a guy with a graphite pencil at the fab, added some missing connections to a chip, by using his pencil to leave conductive marks on the chip, causing the chip to work. The guy who did it, was on my soccer team :-) The chip in that case, the "lid" was held on with cello tape on one edge, and you could flip the lid up and look inside for the pencil marks. And the chip, it then worked. The chip was not very complex, but I think the developer was pretty proud of being the first one of its type, at our fab. It's possible there wasn't any "simulation" done for that chip, and that's why the missing traces were not noticed. We didn't even have a design review for that chip -- if we had reviewed it, I have a suspicion we would have caught that mistake. Today, the scribblings inside are quite small, even for a microscope to look at. At one analysis place, they use an electron microscope, to examine the scribblings and reverse engineer things (check for patent violations). It's long hours of work to make them. It would take too long to design them, if it weren't for the repetitive nature of some of the structures (you just make xerox copies of some of the items and lay them down side by side). The RAM chips in your computer are like that. Very uniform patterns. When the things they do, are closer to being software subroutines (adhoc state machines and so on), it's a lot easier to make mistakes. One chip had 4096 registers in the interface, and we would make a software program to "watch" the register contents. There were some "defined" parts of the registers, we could understand what those were doing. But you would see some other addresses where the detail of the chip was "undefined" and these were observation points and stuff was flashing on and off. That's what the more "random" functions look like. The people at the other company who made the chip, knew what they did, but they don't have to document those observation points for other to use. It took about four tries, to get the function of that chip, closer to correctness. Even though it was fully simulated, had test benches, if the design intent isn't right, you have to do it over again. And the thing was, the management at the other company, thought they were using "smart" techniques to make the chip, but it still took four tries. But it's a living. People make good money doing that. You should try it some time. It's just like designing software. You can be sitting in a CAD room, working on your scribblings at midnight, when others are asleep. You don't have to worry about what was on TV at 8PM, as you're still at work :-) # What fun :-) Yawn. Getting sleepy now. # Only a million more of these to make... https://cmosedu.com/jbaker/courses/ee421L/f21/students/wolak/Lab%205/lab5.html Paul
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| From | phoenix <j63840576@gmail.com> |
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| Date | 2026-06-19 18:40 -0600 |
| Message-ID | <n9m5smFqg1vU1@mid.individual.net> |
| In reply to | #18187 |
Paul wrote: > When the things they do, are closer to being software > subroutines (adhoc state machines and so on), it's a lot > easier to make mistakes. One chip had 4096 registers in > the interface, and we would make a software program to > "watch" the register contents. There were some "defined" > parts of the registers, we could understand what those > were doing. But you would see some other addresses where > the detail of the chip was "undefined" and these were observation > points and stuff was flashing on and off. That's what the > more "random" functions look like. The people at the other > company who made the chip, knew what they did, but they > don't have to document those observation points for other > to use. It took about four tries, You made a grand spelling error in that sentence. It should say, "for others to use." What I see is that you are irresponsible and probably going to electrocute yourself to death. Don't play with electricity. Bad juju all around. -- We eat the night, we drink the time Make our dreams come true And hungry eyes are passing by On streets we call the zoo
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| From | Paul <nospam@needed.invalid> |
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| Date | 2026-06-20 02:40 -0400 |
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| In reply to | #18188 |
On Fri, 6/19/2026 8:40 PM, phoenix wrote: > Paul wrote: >> When the things they do, are closer to being software >> subroutines (adhoc state machines and so on), it's a lot >> easier to make mistakes. One chip had 4096 registers in >> the interface, and we would make a software program to >> "watch" the register contents. There were some "defined" >> parts of the registers, we could understand what those >> were doing. But you would see some other addresses where >> the detail of the chip was "undefined" and these were observation >> points and stuff was flashing on and off. That's what the >> more "random" functions look like. The people at the other >> company who made the chip, knew what they did, but they >> don't have to document those observation points for other >> to use. It took about four tries, > > You made a grand spelling error in that sentence. It should say, "for others to use." What I see is that you are irresponsible and probably going to electrocute yourself to death. Don't play with electricity. Bad juju all around. > This is a CMOS chip, likely running at 3.3V, and we're watching the interface using a display program written for the OS. The prototype chip is mounted on a card, for these first runs. It's an I/O type chip full of state machines and junk. It's hard to get a handle on what it's doing when it has 4096 registers. In software land, you have "public" and "private" parts of code, in declarations. The "public" part is what you give people as your specification. The "private" part is hidden, or at least is not accessible for any usage. It's the same with chip specs. The registers are documented, but they don't tell you how they're making coleslaw inside the chip, as that is a Trade Secret. Paul
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| From | "Mr. Man-wai Chang" <toylet.toylet@gmail.com> |
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| Date | 2026-06-20 11:49 +0800 |
| Message-ID | <11152k5$3p1nm$2@toylet.eternal-september.org> |
| In reply to | #18187 |
On 6/20/2026 4:00 AM, Paul wrote:
>
> They're generally scale-invariant.
>
> The scribbling on them is smaller, but then we put more of the
> scribbling, so they end up having the same X-Y dimensions for the price.
Master Paul, I was talking about affecting nano-thin electronics using
magical power, like those Jedi mind tricks. The thinner the chip, the
easier to use the Force on it, I suppose. :)
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| From | Paul <nospam@needed.invalid> |
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| Date | 2026-06-20 02:48 -0400 |
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| In reply to | #18189 |
On Fri, 6/19/2026 11:49 PM, Mr. Man-wai Chang wrote: > On 6/20/2026 4:00 AM, Paul wrote: >> >> They're generally scale-invariant. >> >> The scribbling on them is smaller, but then we put more of the >> scribbling, so they end up having the same X-Y dimensions for the price. > > > Master Paul, I was talking about affecting nano-thin electronics using > magical power, like those Jedi mind tricks. The thinner the chip, the > easier to use the Force on it, I suppose. :) Silicon chips are relatively inanimate objects, at least at the moment. If light gets to the die, they respond to that. You might remember back in the days of Byte Magazine, they were attempting to get a DRAM chip to work as a webcam (imager). And that's by focusing an image onto the DRAM cells. https://hackaday.com/2014/04/05/taking-pictures-with-a-dram-chip/ Articles on this sort of thing, might have started around 1980. The images do not look good, and you would not expect them to look good. When you do that, you have to know the tiling pattern of cells on the chip surface. A silicon chip may not have an orderly X*Y array on the surface, so first you have to map the address of a pixel by shining a tiny dot of light on various parts of the chip, and see what responds. Paul
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| From | "Mr. Man-wai Chang" <toylet.toylet@gmail.com> |
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| Date | 2026-06-20 18:17 +0800 |
| Message-ID | <1115pc2$pc$1@toylet.eternal-september.org> |
| In reply to | #18191 |
On 6/20/2026 2:48 PM, Paul wrote:
>
> Silicon chips are relatively inanimate objects, at least at the moment.
> .....
> When you do that, you have to know the tiling pattern of cells
> on the chip surface. A silicon chip may not have an orderly X*Y
> array on the surface, so first you have to map the address of a pixel
> by shining a tiny dot of light on various parts of the chip, and
> see what responds.
Jedi witchcraft does not need to know the tilling pattern of brain cells
when you use the Force to alter the mind of a human, Master. As computer
chips get thinner and narrower, they become more and more like a human
brain, thus making their tilling pattern to look the same. So... maybe
you don't need to use a light saber at all to slaughter drones. :)
BTW, I was talking about integrated circuits aka I.C. Are old, black
I.C.s less vulnerable to wireless exploit than modern chips? Sorry, Master.
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| From | "Mr. Man-wai Chang" <toylet.toylet@gmail.com> |
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| Date | 2026-06-20 19:48 +0800 |
| Subject | Re: Are chips ... tilling pattern? magical seals? |
| Message-ID | <1115um3$1i5a$1@toylet.eternal-september.org> |
| In reply to | #18191 |
On 6/20/2026 2:48 PM, Paul wrote:
>
> When you do that, you have to know the tiling pattern of cells
> on the chip surface. A silicon chip may not have an ....
I Google-ed a bit about what you said about "tiling pattern of cells
on the chip surface". So all chips are just drawing nano-fine lines on
some special surfaces using special materia and light-etching machines?
It's not the same as integrated circuits???
What you said is not very much from magicians drawing seals using
magical wands!!! :)
魔動王 - YouTube
<https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sdU8PHV5LF4>
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| From | Paul <nospam@needed.invalid> |
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| Date | 2026-06-20 10:48 -0400 |
| Subject | Re: Are chips ... tilling pattern? magical seals? |
| Message-ID | <111697r$52du$1@dont-email.me> |
| In reply to | #18193 |
On Sat, 6/20/2026 7:48 AM, Mr. Man-wai Chang wrote:
> On 6/20/2026 2:48 PM, Paul wrote:
>>
>> When you do that, you have to know the tiling pattern of cells
>> on the chip surface. A silicon chip may not have an ....
>
> I Google-ed a bit about what you said about "tiling pattern of cells
> on the chip surface". So all chips are just drawing nano-fine lines on some special surfaces using special materia and light-etching machines? It's not the same as integrated circuits???
>
> What you said is not very much from magicians drawing seals using magical wands!!! :)
>
> 魔動王 - YouTube
> <https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sdU8PHV5LF4>
>
When you make DRAM or NAND flash, the elements have
to be laid down in the X,Y direction. And they are
not put in order. They're arranged to reduce
electrical interference.
They don't go like this.
1 2 3 4 5
1
2
3
4
5
It's a repeating pattern. After a small patch of x,y dots, the
pattern should repeat.
When you run memtest, it has some "pattern sensitivity" things
it tries to do. The layout of those DRAM cells, attempts to
prevent simple minded tests from finding the "sensitive" patterns.
And NAND flash does something like that too.
These things are orderly patterns, but they're arranged according
to estimates of electric fields around elements, and how best
to avoid spots where there would be too much interference. I have
not seen any pictures presented, to demonstrate exactly what the
patterns look like.
There are a number of patterns in electronics, that aren't power-of-two
any more. A lot of the former concepts of "what is easy to do",
have been thrown out the window.
Paul
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| From | "Mr. Man-wai Chang" <toylet.toylet@gmail.com> |
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| Date | 2026-06-21 10:24 +0800 |
| Subject | Re: Are chips ... tilling pattern? magical seals? |
| Message-ID | <1117i1m$g6f5$5@toylet.eternal-september.org> |
| In reply to | #18195 |
On 6/20/2026 10:48 PM, Paul wrote:
>
> When you make DRAM or NAND flash, the elements have
> to be laid down in the X,Y direction. And they are
> not put in order. They're arranged to reduce
> electrical interference.
> .....
> There are a number of patterns in electronics, that aren't power-of-two
> any more. A lot of the former concepts of "what is easy to do",
> have been thrown out the window.
I think you were talking about circuit boards (e.g. motherboard), not
fabrication of chips.
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| From | Jeroen Belleman <jeroen@nospam.please> |
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| Date | 2026-06-20 20:14 +0200 |
| Subject | Re: Are chips ... tilling pattern? magical seals? |
| Message-ID | <1116lb0$8vp7$1@dont-email.me> |
| In reply to | #18193 |
On 6/20/26 13:48, Mr. Man-wai Chang wrote: > On 6/20/2026 2:48 PM, Paul wrote: >> >> When you do that, you have to know the tiling pattern of cells >> on the chip surface. A silicon chip may not have an .... > > I Google-ed a bit about what you said about "tiling pattern of cells > on the chip surface". So all chips are just drawing nano-fine lines on > some special surfaces using special materia and light-etching machines? > It's not the same as integrated circuits??? > > What you said is not very much from magicians drawing seals using > magical wands!!! :) > > 魔動王 - YouTube > <https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sdU8PHV5LF4> > It is a well-known fact that all electronics runs on magic smoke. The proof is that when the smoke leaks out, it stops working. Jeroen Belleman
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| From | "Mr. Man-wai Chang" <toylet.toylet@gmail.com> |
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| Date | 2026-06-21 10:18 +0800 |
| Subject | Re: Are chips ... electronics runs on magic smoke?? |
| Message-ID | <1117hll$g6f5$1@toylet.eternal-september.org> |
| In reply to | #18198 |
On 6/21/2026 2:14 AM, Jeroen Belleman wrote:
>
> It is a well-known fact that all electronics runs on magic smoke.
> The proof is that when the smoke leaks out, it stops working.
1. What did you mean by "magic smoke"? Electronic components
are usually sealed completely. They cannot smoke
like human! They don't even breathe.
2. When you said electronics, did you mean all electronic
components or just chips?
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| From | Paul <nospam@needed.invalid> |
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| Date | 2026-06-21 06:34 -0400 |
| Subject | Re: Are chips ... electronics runs on magic smoke?? |
| Message-ID | <1118en8$nqdq$1@dont-email.me> |
| In reply to | #18199 |
On Sat, 6/20/2026 10:18 PM, Mr. Man-wai Chang wrote: > On 6/21/2026 2:14 AM, Jeroen Belleman wrote: >> >> It is a well-known fact that all electronics runs on magic smoke. >> The proof is that when the smoke leaks out, it stops working. > > > 1. What did you mean by "magic smoke"? Electronic components > are usually sealed completely. They cannot smoke > like human! They don't even breathe. > > 2. When you said electronics, did you mean all electronic > components or just chips? > Electronic devices are allowed to smoke, under failure conditions, but they're not supposed to support an open flame. There was one report on USENET, of an ATX supply, where a live flame shot out of the fan hole on the back of the ATX supply (the supply was running of course and the fan spinning). If the computer had been near curtains on that particular day, it could have lit the curtains on fire. For the most part, other ATX supplies do not fail exactly that way, so that one is an "anomaly". So if I tell you "don't put the back of your PC against the curtains", that is the incident I am referring to. Paul
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| From | "Mr. Man-wai Chang" <toylet.toylet@gmail.com> |
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| Date | 2026-06-21 19:34 +0800 |
| Subject | Re: Are chips ... electronics runs on magic smoke?? |
| Message-ID | <1118i8n$optb$1@toylet.eternal-september.org> |
| In reply to | #18202 |
On 6/21/2026 6:34 PM, Paul wrote:
>
> There was one report on USENET, of an ATX supply, where a live
> flame shot out of the fan hole on the back of the ATX supply
> (the supply was running of course and the fan spinning). If
> the computer had been near curtains on that particular day, it
> could have lit the curtains on fire. For the most part, other
> ATX supplies do not fail exactly that way, so that one is an
> "anomaly".
Those are real, non-magical smoke, NOT "magic smnoke", as mentioned by
"Jeroen Belleman"! :)
> So if I tell you "don't put the back of your PC against the curtains",
> that is the incident I am referring to.
To be correct, do NOT block exhaust vent or the chimney of anything
burning or heating up!! :)
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| From | Paul <nospam@needed.invalid> |
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| Date | 2026-06-22 01:53 -0400 |
| Subject | Re: Are chips ... electronics runs on magic smoke?? |
| Message-ID | <111aikk$1a4fu$1@dont-email.me> |
| In reply to | #18203 |
On Sun, 6/21/2026 7:34 AM, Mr. Man-wai Chang wrote: > On 6/21/2026 6:34 PM, Paul wrote: >> >> There was one report on USENET, of an ATX supply, where a live >> flame shot out of the fan hole on the back of the ATX supply >> (the supply was running of course and the fan spinning). If >> the computer had been near curtains on that particular day, it >> could have lit the curtains on fire. For the most part, other >> ATX supplies do not fail exactly that way, so that one is an >> "anomaly". > > Those are real, non-magical smoke, NOT "magic smnoke", as mentioned by "Jeroen Belleman"! :) > If you've seen the smoke from failed chip(s), it's not exactly like other smoke. If two bus drivers (from the days of jelly bean chips) are accidentally enabled at the same time, enough power is dissipated to crack at least one of the two packages open, the die inside is piping-hot, and a thin stream of black smoke emerges. And that counts as the magic smoke. Once the smoke escapes, the life cycle is complete. Into the waste bin they go :-) And it is magic smoke, because the visual appearance of the smoke, is different than how other materials smoke and burn. Paul
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| From | "Mr. Man-wai Chang" <toylet.toylet@gmail.com> |
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| Date | 2026-06-22 14:09 +0800 |
| Subject | Re: Are chips ... electronics dies & releaas "magic smoke"?? |
| Message-ID | <111ajj8$1a0l1$13@toylet.eternal-september.org> |
| In reply to | #18204 |
On 6/22/2026 1:53 PM, Paul wrote:
>
> If you've seen the smoke from failed chip(s), it's not exactly
> like other smoke. If two bus drivers (from the days of jelly bean chips)
> are accidentally enabled at the same time, enough power is dissipated to crack at
> least one of the two packages open, the die inside is piping-hot,
> and a thin stream of black smoke emerges.
>
> And that counts as the magic smoke. Once the smoke escapes, the
> life cycle is complete. Into the waste bin they go :-)
>
> And it is magic smoke, because the visual appearance of
> the smoke, is different than how other materials smoke and burn.
That's not magic smoke, just a burnt fuse made from special metal
composites.
I do NOT wanna waste time & money doing burn/fry/sacred test on
different chips. :)
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| From | Woozy Song <suzyw0ng@outlook.com> |
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| Date | 2026-06-21 17:49 +0800 |
| Message-ID | <1118c3c$n0e1$2@dont-email.me> |
| In reply to | #18186 |
Mr. Man-wai Chang wrote: > > Are chips more vulnerable to witchcraft as they got thinner and narrower? > more vulnerable to cosmic rays, so chips used in outer space are still running lithography of 100 nm or so
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| From | "Mr. Man-wai Chang" <toylet.toylet@gmail.com> |
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| Date | 2026-06-23 20:59 +0800 |
| Message-ID | <111dvvv$29056$1@toylet.eternal-september.org> |
| In reply to | #18201 |
On 6/21/2026 5:49 PM, Woozy Song wrote:
> Mr. Man-wai Chang wrote:
>>
>> Are chips more vulnerable to witchcraft as they got thinner and narrower?
>>
>
> more vulnerable to cosmic rays, so chips used in outer space are still
> running lithography of 100 nm or so
Space objects usually have shielding against all kinds of radiations,
unless... UNLESS.... you just can't. The farther away from the Earth,
the lower the sheilding effect??? But BUT....
I wanna talk about witchcraft against wafers. Can tin foil do it? ;)
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| From | phoenix <j63840576@gmail.com> |
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| Date | 2026-06-23 10:20 -0600 |
| Message-ID | <n9vq27Fbfu7U1@mid.individual.net> |
| In reply to | #18206 |
Mr. Man-wai Chang wrote: > On 6/21/2026 5:49 PM, Woozy Song wrote: >> Mr. Man-wai Chang wrote: >>> >>> Are chips more vulnerable to witchcraft as they got thinner and >>> narrower? >>> >> >> more vulnerable to cosmic rays, so chips used in outer space are still >> running lithography of 100 nm or so > > > Space objects usually have shielding against all kinds of radiations, > unless... UNLESS.... you just can't. The farther away from the Earth, > the lower the sheilding effect??? But BUT.... > > I wanna talk about witchcraft against wafers. Can tin foil do it? ;) > > It's not really witchcraft like made out to be. Lasting technology uses closer to 200nm today. You can even fit a toad's eye in between it, so this is nothing shocking. Look elsewhere for magic, young Jedi. You will find it in the summer of 2026. -- We eat the night, we drink the time Make our dreams come true And hungry eyes are passing by On streets we call the zoo
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| From | "Mr. Man-wai Chang" <toylet.toylet@gmail.com> |
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| Date | 2026-06-24 00:28 +0800 |
| Subject | Re: Are chips more vulnerable to ... the Force? |
| Message-ID | <111ec7f$2d0gg$1@toylet.eternal-september.org> |
| In reply to | #18207 |
On 6/24/2026 12:20 AM, phoenix wrote:
> ... this is nothing shocking. Look elsewhere for magic,
> young Jedi. You will find it in the summer of 2026.
>
Affirmative, Master. :)
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