{"id":957009,"date":"2025-08-23T09:26:22","date_gmt":"2025-08-23T03:56:22","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/?p=957009"},"modified":"2025-08-23T09:40:05","modified_gmt":"2025-08-23T04:10:05","slug":"the-secret-smiley-inside-a-microchip","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/2025\/08\/23\/the-secret-smiley-inside-a-microchip\/","title":{"rendered":"The secret smiley inside a microchip"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>In 2020, Kenton Smith, an engineer, was peering through a microscope at electronic devices, admiring the intricate designs.<\/p>\n<p>As he studied something called a voltage comparator, he saw a face staring back.<\/p>\n<p>In one corner of the chip was a crude microscopic smiley face, about .004 inches wide, etched onto the surface.<\/p>\n<p>Smith had made a hobby of examining silicon chips to study their layouts but had never come across such a personal touch.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In 2020, Kenton Smith, an engineer, was peering through a microscope at electronic devices, admiring the intricate designs. As he studied something called a voltage comparator, he saw a face staring back. In one corner of the chip was a crude microscopic smiley face, about .004 inches wide, etched onto the surface. Smith had made a hobby of examining silicon chips to study their layouts but had never come across such a personal touch.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":8,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[59,4,10],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-957009","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-it-2-the-economic-times","category-newspapers","category-the-economic-times"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/957009","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/8"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=957009"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/957009\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=957009"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=957009"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=957009"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}