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Inside a UV-erasable EPROM
This EPROM chip, manufactured by STmicroelectronics, shows the intricate inner workings of integrated circuits (it is behind a quartz windo since UV can actually erase the information), with the memory cells in the middle, controllers on the side, and bond wires to the pins.
Fun fact: in some cases, data recovery can actually be performed by physically inspecting the memory cells under a microscope.
u/wisely03 — 2 days ago