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Not taking a side, what the heck is the chip in the photos if the story is inaccurate?
by beaner 8y ago
Not taking a side, what the heck is the chip in the photos if the story is inaccurate?
- nrp 8y agoIt’s basically an “artist’s representation”. The chip in the image on the Bloomberg cover looks like typical 3-pin oscillator package, and absolutely not a thing that would be placed on a bus with data going through it.
- Itsdijital 8y agoIt's not a micro, but there are microcontrollers that are comparable in size. An AVR ATtiny20 is available in a 1.5mm x 1.4mm package. That's just about a 2mm^2 footprint, it's totally insane.
- zokier 8y agoAnd not just itty ATtinys, for example MAX32660 is full fat ARM M4F core in 1.6x1.6 mm package. It is the sort of thing you could hide pretty much anywhere. For reference here is a picture of similar package (called wlcsp or variation of thereof): https://img.youtube.com/vi/edERx4x5eY0/maxresdefault.jpg https://img.youtube.com/vi/edERx4x5eY0/maxresdefault.jpg
- anon1348 8y agoSomeone found it on sale for 10 cents on Taobao, https://archive.fo/3k7e2 https://archive.fo/3k7e2 (scroll down to the bottom) It's a Ceramic balun HHM1522E1 patch 0805 signal adjustment 880MHz ~ 960MHz