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A closeup of the silicon die showing Hebrew letters made from brown lines of polysilicon. The photo has a bunch of purple regions, due to oxide layer that wasn't fully dissolved.

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A closeup of the silicon die showing Hebrew letters made from brown lines of polysilicon. The photo has a bunch of purple regions, due to oxide layer that wasn't fully dissolved.
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Ken Shirriff (kenshirriff@oldbytes.space)'s status on Tuesday, 08-Aug-2023 02:12:29 JST Ken Shirriff

I found a hidden name in the Intel 8088 processor. The 8088 was a derivative of the 8086 processor introduced in 1979 and best known as the processor in the IBM PC. I dissolved the chip's metal layer and found "רפי", the name in Hebrew of Rafi Retter, the chip's engineer.

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