I did not know they did this kind of thing in silicon

[ruffrecords]

Cheers

IAn

 

[clintrubber]

Yep, many (funny) examples exist. They didn't hold back on this chip though, quite a lot of things added!

Not sure if this still can be done, at least we've been told to refrain from it already pretty long ago. Also increased likelyhood that one of the current checks may flag.

In addition, you got to have a pretty strong story if there's this funny drawing AND some silly bug in the design or layout of the same chip.

 

[volker]

If you like looking at silicon this is a great site.

A couple audio-related posts:
https://zeptobars.com/en/read/Ti-NE5532-real-vs-fake-opamp
https://zeptobars.com/en/read/OPA627-AD744-real-vs-fake-china-ebay
https://zeptobars.com/en/read/Toshiba-2SK369-low-noise-JFET
https://zeptobars.com/en/read/National-LM394CH-super-matched-bjt
https://zeptobars.com/en/read/MAT02-low-noise-supermatched-BJT-Analog-Devices

 

[clintrubber]

As it seems the term 'chip art' is the name (or one of them).

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chip_art

 

[cyrano]

If you search for "easter egg" discovery on YT, there's over 4 million hits. A lot of them for the nerd version...