On Wed, 20 Aug 2008 23:10:40 -0700, "Calif Bill"
wrote:

They probably got stolen
masks as there was bad circuit in the design and was just wired around. The
bad circuit with wire around was in the Russian built chip.

The must have got the masks, since reverse engineering a chip is
impossible. I understand eight or more layers are common. To digress,I
wouldn't mind having a five by five foot high resolution photo of one
to hang on the wall.

Casady