NSFW: naked photos of the hottest Nvidia, Intel, and AMD silicon of the past 20 years

Silicon pornographer, Fritzchens Fritz, creates the most stunning images of CPUs, graphics cards, and console chips we’ve ever seen. The multi-coloured die shots you might see in company promotional material around a new GPU or processor architecture look neat and everything, but generally just look like pre-made renders. The stripped back silicon exposed by Fritz has a solidity and hyper-reality that puts anything Nvidia, Intel, or AMD have released to promote their own new products look positively pedestrian. The process to expose the actual silicon is painstaking; requiring delidding, heat application, and so many levels of physical grinding and chemical abrasion that would drive most human beings to distraction. The example that Fritz gives on his YouTube channel shows features a CPU taking four hours and eight minutes of sanding and lapping to get down to the magical silicon level. We’re not highlighting this person’s work for any other reason than it floored our jaws when we laid eyes on the Fritzchens Fritz Flickr stream and we just felt the need to expose the hardware artistry of this legend.

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