Found a method to see inside some chips, without having to unmount or destroy the chips.

Best part - the method only relies on lightly modded off-the-shelf cameras and lenses.

Read more at https://www.bunniestudios.com/blog/?p=6712

Infra-Red, In Situ (IRIS) Inspection of Silicon « bunnie's blog

@bunnie You mean to tell me it's now possible to reverse engineer chips without crazy equipment like an electron microscope? That's pretty fuckin' amazing.