Microprocessor die pictures

All microprocessor die pictures presented on www.cpu-world.com are copyrighted by William Blair and are published with his permission. For a complete list of pages containing links to CPU die pictures, please see further below.

William is currently looking for more chips for die photography. His primary focus is on microprocessors, microcontrollers and FPU chips, but he will gladly accept other computer-related chips. The chips can be in almost any condition – badly bent, broken or missing pins, scratched, chipped or broken ceramic package, solder pulls, etc. Chips that would otherwise be of no interest to collectors because of their condition are perfectly acceptable for his purposes. The only exceptions are:

• The chip die must not be damaged and the die cavity must be sealed
• The chips must be in ceramic packages and have a metal or ceramic die lid over the die cavity.

William will e-mail donors full-resolution pictures of the dies of their donated chips. William is planning to upgrade his photographic equipment in 2007, and re-take pictures of all of the chips in his possession. For this reason donated chips will not be returned. On the bright side, once he re-takes new pictures he will send new die pictures to all people who donated their chips.

So, if you have any chips you'd like to donate to this ongoing effort to photographically document the hidden beauty of integrated circuit dies, please contact William Blair. He will gladly pay the postage required to mail your chips. Please keep in mind that he is not making this effort for monetary gain, but to reveal for everyone's enjoyment as many colorful die microscapes as possible.

Update: William now has his own site IC Die Photography where you can find more microprocessor die pictures (link will open in a new window).

AMD 2901 AMD 29000 AMD 9511 AMD K5 Cyrix 6x86 Intel 3000 (New) Intel 8008 Intel 8080 Intel 8085 Intel 8086 Intel 8087 Intel 8088	Intel 80186 Intel 80286 Intel 80287 Intel 80386 Intel 80387 Intel 80486 Intel 80486 overdrive Intel Pentium Intel 80960 MIPS R4400 Motorola 6800	Motorola 680x Motorola 6809 Motorola 68000 Motorola 68010 (New) Motorola 68020 Motorola 68040 Motorola 68881 Motorola 68882 (New) RCA 1802 Winchip C6 Zilog Z8000
Images of microprocessors / microcontrollers
Pentium Pro CPU	Pentium Pro 256KB cache	LSI Logic SPARC UI
NS32008D 10	Cypress Semiconductor 7C9101A-30GC	Fujitsu SuperSPARC II 85
Motorola MC81000RC25	DEC microPDP 11 J11-AC Control Unit (CPU)	DEC microPDP 11 J11-AC Data Unit
AMD AM8052-8LC50 Microcontroller	AMD Am29050-40GC CPU	TI SN74ACT8832AGB 32-bit Bit Slice Processor
NEC VR3000A-40 CPU	AMD 80C541A Engineering Sample	Fairchild F944518DC (DG Nova on a chip)
Images of other chips
Intel C51C98-25 16Kx4 Static RAM TTL compatible	Intel C2708 EPROM	Intel C2109-3 8Kx1 dynamic RAM
Data General MicroNova mN615D	SMC COM8502 UART	Intel C1702A EPROM
Mostek MK1002 128x2 SISO shift register	Zilog Z8010CS MMU	Electronic Arrays 8316F ROM
Bt 467KG230 RAMDAC	MME U555C	Matsushita MN8600SA2
WDC CP1621 (LSI-11) Control Unit	WDC CP1611 (LSI-11) Data Unit	AMD AM9216BDC 2Kx8 ROM
AMD AM29X305ADC	AT&T 1047P	AT&T DSP32C Digital Signal Processor
HP PA-RISC 7000 MIOC (memory IO controller)	IDT 49C402-BG84	Motorola MC68450L10 DMA Controller