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You're not breathing silicon dust!

Chips in all computers are highly encased, either in ceramic, hard plastic, metal, or some combination. They're never, ever, exposed to the air circulating through a computer, because the dust would destroy the delicate circuitry.

If you're regularly cracking open chips to snack on them, you have bigger problems...



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