Hidden warning message found in Samsung’s Galaxy tablet

Summary: "IF YOU CAN READ THIS YOU ARE MUCH TOO CLOSE" etched onto one of the internal chip's dies at a ridiculously small scale. Plus various other cartoon characters.<p>Edit: Yeesh, what's with the downvotes? I'm just providing a summary for other people who check the comments first, to catch the gist of an article quickly.

Microprocessor easter eggs aren't new.<p>Here are some of the existing menagerie...<p><a href="http://micro.magnet.fsu.edu/creatures/" rel="nofollow">http://micro.magnet.fsu.edu/creatures/</a><p><a href="http://micro.magnet.fsu.edu/chipshots/dec/index.html" rel="nofollow">http://micro.magnet.fsu.edu/chipshots/dec/index.html</a><p><a href="http://simh.trailing-edge.com/dsarchive.html" rel="nofollow">http://simh.trailing-edge.com/dsarchive.html</a><p>And then there's the classic "VAX - When you care enough to steal the very best" that was etched (in Cyrillic) on the some of the MicroVAX chips:<p><a href="http://micro.magnet.fsu.edu/creatures/pages/russians.html" rel="nofollow">http://micro.magnet.fsu.edu/creatures/pages/russians.html</a>

The cartoon chicken is Calimero: <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Calimero" rel="nofollow">http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Calimero</a>

The dragon wants to become a firefighter =). It's an Italian cartoon and it was also popular in Germany.<p>It seems that there is no English wikipedia page for this one.<p><a href="http://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Grisu,_der_kleine_Drache" rel="nofollow">http://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Grisu,_der_kleine_Drache</a>

To me this is a sign of healthy engineering and management team that's confident enough to have fun with what they're doing.

The man playing drums looks <i>very</i> much like Conan O'brien to me. Just saying.

<i>a smiling hat-wearing hippo/dragon/whatever,</i><p>Aka grisu the firefighter.<p><i>and last but not least was some silicon art showing a baby duck</i><p>Aka Calimero.<p>Both popular series produced in the late 70s and shown in the 80s and 90s.<p>I wonder wheter I'm already too old or too young to know these..

Is it just my copy of Firefox, or does everyone have to manage to hover over and click on a 1x1 dot in order to change the images? Not very easy on a touchpad.<p>Seems like a "Previous | Next" UI would have been much easier to use.