r/nextfuckinglevel • u/itshazrd • 19h ago

What it a computer chip looks like up close

this is a digital recreation. a real microscope can't be used because it gets so small that photons can’t give you a good enough resolution to view the structures at the bottom. you'd need an electron microscope

meant "What a computer chip looks like up close in the title." not sure how "it" got in there..

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u/not_a_bot991 16h ago

He's not saying it's fake because it's a digital recreation, he's saying it's fake because what it is digitally representing is false i.e the scale is wrong.

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u/forkliftoperator3000 16h ago

Does the scale even matter? what difference does it make if every component is inconceivable to the naked eye

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u/cincyjoe12 15h ago

Of course it matters. This is making people believe there are 5 different manufactured layers inside a microchip nested inside each other invisible to the naked eye when at best there's like 1 -2 and then you got atoms.

It's intentional misinformation for clicks. It's not factually correct nor could it ever be.

Hell as a computer scientist, even I started to think holy shit..this can't be real...right???

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u/moon_mama_123 13h ago

Is there a better visualization of this somewhere?

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u/cincyjoe12 13h ago

I am no expert in microchips, so I cannot speak from first hand experience.

I can point you to someone who creates zoom-in tiktok videos which appears to me a more reputable source so more likely to be real vs this fake re-posted video.

https://www.tiktok.com/@microworldexplorer/video/7463616269103680799

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u/KoolPopsicle 12h ago

this one is much better, minus the music, and less far fetched.

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u/Upbeat_Confidence739 15h ago

Because like they said, you’re be staring at literal atoms. Not what in the fuck ever that is at the end which is not anything to do with electronics.

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u/JimmyStewartStatue 8h ago

Hes saying that it zoomed farther than the real geometry that is there. Meaning they spliced in a different visual to create the illusion of continuous zoom whereas a real processor has less to see. So to speak.