Some of my favorite pieces of chip art.
Chip art is extremely small drawings that get added to microprocessor designs and then etched into them during fabrication. I've heard that they were originally used as a crude form of protection for intellectual property when designing really old and relatively primitive ICs but I don't know how true that is. Anyhow, here's some of my favorite chip art.
Yeuk-Hai Shark Mok put a picture himself and his wife on their wedding day into the SGI MIPS R10000 processor in 1996.
Another SGI chip, but this time it's a dinosaur with a guitar in the MIPS R12000 processor. Found in the same processor is an image of Anubis.
In case you're a hardcore fan of "Where's Waldo"
Both found on HP CPU-support ICs, a tiny Pepsi advertisement and a crayon no bigger than a grain of salt.
A Rolex etched into the HP PA-RISC 7100 CPU.
Yeuk-Hai Shark Mok put a picture himself and his wife on their wedding day into the SGI MIPS R10000 processor in 1996.
Another SGI chip, but this time it's a dinosaur with a guitar in the MIPS R12000 processor. Found in the same processor is an image of Anubis.
In case you're a hardcore fan of "Where's Waldo"
Both found on HP CPU-support ICs, a tiny Pepsi advertisement and a crayon no bigger than a grain of salt.
A Rolex etched into the HP PA-RISC 7100 CPU.
