Archived news: January 2004 - March 2004

       
Mar 29
 
  Added new CPUs to the Intel 8080 page. There are only five new processors, so browsing shoudn't take long :). Don't miss two very rare processors: Intel C8080A in purple ceramic package and Intel C8080B.


Intel
C8080B
   


Intel C8080A (purple/gold/gold)

Intel C8080B (white/gold/gold)
Intel ID8080A
NEC D8080A (white/tin/tin) (round lid)
Tesla MHB8080A

       
Mar 21
 
  Added pictures of 16 new 80387 co-processors. The most interesting co-processors are Cyrix AutoMath (CX-EMC87-33-GP), Intel RapidCad-2 (not really a co-processor), and Green Math co-processors.


Intel
RapidCAD-2
   


Cyrix FasMath CX-83D87-25-GP (gold top)

Cyrix Cx487DLC-33GP
Cyrix Cx87DLC-33QP (PGA adapter)
Cyrix FasMath CX-EMC87-33-GP
Cyrix FasMath CX-83D87-40-GP (brown top)
IIT 3C87-25 (ceramic)
IIT 3C87-33 (ceramic)
IIT 3C87-40 (gold)
IIT 3C87-40 (PLCC on PGA adapter)
IIT 3C87SX-20
Intel A80387DX-33 (Intel i387 DX logo)
Intel A80387DX-33 (nologo)
Intel N80387SX-20 (nologo)
Intel RapidCAD-2
LC Technology Green Math 4C87DX-40
LC Technology Green Math 4C87SLC-40

       
Mar 14
 
  Added new Intel Pentium Pro processors. This update includes mostly enginnering samples of Pentium Pro, including Pentium Pro 133 that was never officially released.


Intel
Pentium Pro 133
   


Intel Pentium Pro 133 256 KB - KB80521EX-133 (ES)

Intel Pentium Pro 150 256 KB - KB80521EX150 (Intel logo)
Intel Pentium Pro 150 256 KB - KB80521EX150 (ES)
Intel Pentium Pro 166 512 KB - KB80521EX166 (ES)
Intel Pentium Pro 200 256 KB - BP80521200 256K
Intel Pentium Pro 200 256 KB - KB80521EX200 256K (ES)
Intel Pentium Pro 200 512 KB - KB80521EX200 512K (ES)

       
Mar 06
 
  Added new family of Fairchild 3850 (F8) microcontrollers. F8 was a two-chip implementation, where the first chip (3850 CPU) had an ALU, two registers, RAM, I/O ports, and some other logic, and the second chip (program storage unit) contained masked-programmed ROM, addressing logic, program counter and stack pointer registers, timer and additional I/O ports. Together these two chips worked as a microcontroller. In this update there are only 3850 CPUs. One of them, Fairchild 38501DC, is very rare.


Fairchild
38501DC
   


Fairchild 38501DC (white/gold/gold)

Fairchild 3850PC
Mostek MK3850N-10
Mostek MK3850N-3

       
Feb 17
 
  Added new family - Nexgen Nx586:


NexGen
Nx586-P80
   


NexGen Nx586-P80

NexGen Nx586-P90
NexGen Nx586-P100

       
Feb 08
 
  Added pictures of 3001 and 3002 chips to Intel 3002 family page. Instead of saying what is rare in this update I'd rather say what is not - Intel D3001. All other chips have rare package (white ceramic), rare origin (Russia/Soviet union) or rare markings (customer samples).


Signetics
N3002I
   


Intel 3002 (Customer Sample)

Intel C3002 (side-brazed) (white/gold/gold)
Intel D3001
Intel MD3001 (Customer Sample)
Signetics N3001I (purple/purple/tin)
Signetics N3002I (side-brazed) (white/gold/gold)
USSR 589IK01
USSR 589IK02
USSR K589IK01

       
Feb 03
 
  Added new 80486 CPUs including many obscure processors. There are three rare QFP processors in this update: Cyrix 33 MHz, IBM 75 MHz and UMC 33 or 40 MHz. AMD and Intel 80486 processors are not included, they will be added to the website later this or next month.


IBM
486-4V375QIC
   


Cyrix Cx486DX-V33QP (on PGA adapter)

Cyrix Cx486S-33-GP
Cyrix Cx486DX-40GP
Cyrix Cx486S-40GP
Cyrix Cx486S40 FasCache (heatsink)
Cyrix Cx486DX2-50 (heatsink)
Cyrix Cx486DX2-V66GP (3.45V 3.6V 4.0V writeback)
Cyrix Cx486DX2-66 (heatsink writeback)
Cyrix Cx486DX4-100GP4 (DX4-PO)
IBM 486-4V375QIC (on PGA adapter)
ST ST486DX-40
ST ST486DX4V10HS (Windows logo)
Texas Instruments TI486DX2-G66-GA
Texas Instruments TI486DX4-G100-GA
UMC U5SX 486-33F /40 (on PGA adapter)

       
Jan 27
 
  Added new 680x microprocessors and microcontrollers. The most interesting chips in this update are two Motorola prototype microcontrollers and AMI chips. AMI plastic chips look very unusual due to embossed "AMI" logo, and AMI ceramic just look nice. Motorola 680x page is getting bigger and bigger, so in the near future I'm planning to split it into separate pages - 6800, 6801, 6802, etc.


AMI
S6800
   


AMI S6800 (purple-black-tin)

AMI S6800P (Embossed logo)
AMI S6800EP (Embossed logo) (double stamped)
AMI S6802 (purple-black-tin)
AMI S6802P
Fairchild F6802P
Hitachi HD46802P (HD6802P)
Hitachi HD6809P
Motorola 6800/BQCJC
Motorola MC68HC705ACFN
Motorola MC68HC705B16CFN
Motorola MC68HC705B5CFN
Motorola XC68HC805B6CFN (Sample prototype)
Motorola XC68HC05B6FN (Monitor sample)
Motorola MC68HC11A1FN
Motorola XC68HC711E9FS
SGS-Thomson EF6805U3P-B
SGS-Thomson EF68B09J
SGS-Thomson EF6809P

       
Jan 25
 
    Updated chip identification pages: Fairchild (new), Hughes (new), IBM (new), Intel (updated), Sony (new) and Toshiba (new).  
       
Jan 19
 
  Updated AMD K5 page. Among other chips this update includes four K5 engineering samples and a rare K5-PR75 processor with gold-plated heatspreader. K5 collection now looks almost complete to me. Well, "almost" because there maybe two processors still missing from the collection: K5 PR90 with gold-plated heatspreader and SSA/5-100ABR. If you have any information about these processors please contact me or post in the forum. New pictures:


AMD
AMD-SSA/5-90ABQ (ES)
   


AMD K5 PR75 - AMD-K5-PR75ABR (gold)

AMD K5 90 - AMD-SSA/5-90ABQ (ES)
AMD K5 PR100 - AMD-K5-PR100ABQ
AMD K5 PR100 - AMD-K5-PR100ABQ (gold)
AMD K5 PR133 - AMD-K5-PR133ABQ (ES)
AMD K5 PR166 - AMD-K5-PR166ABQ (ES)
AMD K5 PR200 - AMD-K5-PR200ABX (ES)

       
Jan 14
 
  Added Most Popular page that shows last week's 10 most viewed microprocessors and microprocessors families. This page will be updated weekly.  
       
Jan 11
 
  First update of the year. I updated Zilog Z80 CPU page with 18 new processors, including very rare and very old white ceramic Z80, rare clone of Z80 processor from Russian and two East German clones.


Zilog
Z80 CPU
   


DDR 80-CPU

DDR UB880D (MME on 2nd line)
NEC D780C
USSR T34VM1
Zilog Z80 CPU (white/gold/gold)
Zilog Z80A CPU (no logo) (gray/gold/gold)
Zilog Z80A-CPU (logo)
Zilog Z84C0006FEC
Zilog Z84C0006VEC
Zilog Z84C0008FEC
Zilog Z84C0008PEC
Zilog Z84C0008VEC
Zilog Z84C0008VSC
Zilog Z84C0010FEC
Zilog Z84C0020FEC
Zilog Z84C0020PEC
Zilog Z84C0020VEC
Zilog Z84C0110VEC

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