A huge project of re-creating the Atari Falcon custom chips has been going on for a while. Today Mikro with crew (including the veteran ST customchip decapper Ijor) released a presentation of the work done so far. For a noob like the article author this seems like black magic and absolutely impossible, truly fascinating!
The process of decapping and delayering the chips together with making very high-resolution photograps is quite expensive, and so far Mikro have funded the entire operation. Now it's possible to help the project by donating, which in the long run could help reproduce the Falcon chips to repair broken computers and building new ones from newly manufacturered motherboards.
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Lowres photograph of a decapped Atari Falcon Videl custom chip
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Donate if you can!