Consider a hypothetical problem...

Suppose you had to reverse-engineer this chip

And you know nothing about electronics or digital logic

• No semiconductors, Boolean algebra, circuit wiring
• No manuals, no instructions, nobody to answer questions

Could you distill underlying operating principles from the bewildering complexity?

A Pentium die

http://micro.magnet.fsu.edu/chips/pentium/pentiumlrg.jpg

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