English: The IHS of this CPU indicates it was manufactured in 2005, but the date 2006 is inscribed into the silicon.
This chip appears to be identical to the AMD Turion CPU I also photographed. I scraped deeper into this chip than the Turion, so you can see the structures much better, at the cost of additional chips in the silicon.
This is a composite of 105 images taken by a pixel 2XL from a microscope at 40X. The images had 65% overlap and were stitched together in Microsoft Image Composite Editor using the structured panorama mode.
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