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"There are no secrets in silicon" A determined enough team of people with sulfuric acid and electron microscopes could work out exactly what is going on inside
by ForHackernews 6y ago
"There are no secrets in silicon"
A determined enough team of people with sulfuric acid and electron microscopes could work out exactly what is going on inside the chip.
(not that anyone would actually do this - maybe Intel? But at least in principle, the information is accessible to non-Apple folks)
- dismalpedigree 6y agoWe do. This is what we have publicly disclosed about our findings thus far. https://www.techinsights.com/blog/two-new-apple-socs-two-market-events-apple-a14-and-m1 https://www.techinsights.com/blog/two-new-apple-socs-two-mar...
- comboy 6y agoIs it common to put fake features in silicon to make reverse engineering harder?
- dismalpedigree 6y agoNot really (that i have seen). I am not an analyst though, so not a guarantee. Die real estate is extremely expensive. Plus it wouldn’t really throw us off the scent due to the techniques we employ.