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Quaxo76
Joined: 04 Aug 2012 Posts: 2
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Posted: Sat Aug 04, 2012 3:37 pm Post subject: Old unknown ceramic CPU |
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Hello all, this is my first post here. I found this site while trying to identify a chip I've had for more than 20 years.
It was taken from a board (it was socketed) that I found at a flea market together with more boards from the same machine. The brand logo looks like this: " ||/"
The chip is a white ceramic package with golden pins (64 pins). On the white ceramic there are these markings:
||/
91150052
MC-5
As I found this chip before knowing better, I removed the golden cap to see the die. And on the die I can see the markings "||/" and "MC-5".
One board from that machine is a very large RAM board, with about 200 ICs for a total of 2KB.
Does anyone know what I have here? What brand, what machine, and where I can find info about this CPU? I couldn't find anything online.
Thanks in advance,
Cristian |
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smithy

Joined: 27 Apr 2008 Posts: 2177 Location: Sydney, Australia
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Posted: Sat Aug 04, 2012 6:04 pm Post subject: |
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It's a Four Phase chip. Don't think it is from the CPU board, more likely the "MC" is memory controller...but I don't know much about these. There are other posts and Gil Carrick is the expert - see http://mit-a.com/
Also search on the forums for "Four Phase" _________________ My Intel collection..well getting there:
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Quaxo76
Joined: 04 Aug 2012 Posts: 2
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Posted: Sun Aug 05, 2012 1:17 am Post subject: |
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Thank you very much! The photos on the site you linked show exactly the same kind of board than the ones I have. Except that my RAM board is more massive, might be from another system.
I thought it was a CPU because it's big and because the die doesn't look like a memory device, but you're right, it's not a CPU. I'll write Gil Carrick to see if he has more informations!
Thanks again,
Cristian |
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UMMR

Joined: 23 Aug 2007 Posts: 328 Location: Udine, ITALY
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Posted: Tue Aug 07, 2012 8:24 am Post subject: |
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Hi,
Four Phase memory controller.
The company was a pioneer of FET LSI.
Paolo |
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