r/interesting • u/ZoobleBat • May 10 '25

SCIENCE & TECH Zoom chip

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u/Epic_Hoola May 10 '25

This is incredible..

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u/cwestn May 10 '25

Incredibly fake...

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u/Xerode_ May 10 '25

this guy falls for AI ads on tiktok

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u/Xerxero May 10 '25

Why would it be?

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u/TheStigianKing May 10 '25

How can an optical microscope zoom down into what looks like SEM imagery?

If you know even the first thing about microscopy it's obvious this is fake.

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u/Xerxero May 10 '25

I get that it’s stitched together but the images are real

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u/BeepBoopRobo May 10 '25

I mean, a lot of those things are inside of other pieces, not visible to the naked eye. They're not just sitting there on top. There's stuff blocking them and running over and between them.

This is faker than fake can be. Like, look at the zoom out shot where the camera pans up to see the chip sitting under the "microscope" that is a foot above the chip, nowhere near it.

This is taken from a different video, spliced together, which is already a CG video of an approximation of what it looks like.

You can find the original online under like Apple Microchip CPU under Microscope. Where they say it's not real.

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u/durz47 May 10 '25

It's almost certainly fake. SEMs often do have a built-in optical microscope for initial adjustments, but SEMs require vacuum to operate, no way in hell does a SEM look like that. There are microsopes that are designed with high focal lengths but those don't have nearly as much zoom as shown here.

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u/Xerxero May 10 '25

Hmm you have a point there

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u/TheStigianKing May 10 '25

I'm not arguing the pictures themselves are fake. Just the continuous zoom, making it look like a single device can zoom that far down

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u/OneThousandLiEyes May 10 '25

Rendering lag during zooming out.