Oh, wow, this is basically a chip full of trigatrons isn't it? https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Trigatron https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Trigatron For anyone who d

Oh, wow, this is basically a chip full of trigatrons isn't it? https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Trigatron https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Trigatron For anyone who doesn't feel like reading the wiki, these things are normally switches you use when all other types of switch would be destroyed by the amount of current you're trying to pass (the pictured device has a mesh cage to catch fragments if it blows up). If you've ever seen one of those demos where someone 'shrinks' a quarter or crushes cans with magnetic fields, there's a good chance that's what they're using to switch the power on. Seeing the same concept used in a cpu is bizarre, but really exciting if it works.