Inside the Machine

Jon Stokes

Editor

William Pollock

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The photograph in the center of the cover shows a small portion of an Intel 80486DX2 microprocessor die at 200x optical magnification. Most of the visible features are the top metal interconnect layers which wire most of the on-die components together.

Cover photo by Matt Britt and Matt Gibbs.

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