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A museum for the history of processors and CPUs and how they have changed our world. Includes Intel, AMD as well as lesser known companies such as Signetics.
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- Soviet Argon-11S Computers for Space
- Socialist Romania Computer Chips
- The History of the SUPER HEDT x86 PC
- The Soviet CMOS 8085 CPU: 1821VM85A
- The History of the HEDT x86 PC – Part 2 – AMD
- The History of the HEDT x86 PC – Part 1
- Chip of the Day: Soviet 573RF10 – a CMOS 8755A
- The History of Angstrem Memory IC’s in the USSR
- CPU of the Day: P.A. Semi PA6T PowerPC
- The DEC/Compaq Turbo Laser 6 AlphaServer KN7CH Processor
- How do you test a S3 GPU? With an HP 93000
- The Many Sockets of VIA CPU’s
2021 19
- The Soviet 1801VM3 Enhanced LSI-11 Processor
- The Soviet 1801VM2 LSI-11 Processor
- The IBM 4020 Military Computer – Tracking Missiles with 6-bit Bytes
- The RCA Solid State Technology Center (SSTC)
- NEC’s Forgotten FPUs
- Forgotten Italian CPU – The Genesys B52 MMX
- The 6502 Travels the World: The Story of the Indian SCL6502
- The Intel 8086 Gets ICE’d
- Navy Hydrophone Noise Canceller: Weitek 3332 Floating Point Based DSP
- Intel P54CM Pentium: The Dual Pentium Processor
- First & Last AMD Socket A Athlons – Thunderbird vs. Barton – Part 2
- First & Last AMD Socket A Athlons – Thunderbird vs. Barton – Part 1
- CPU of the Day: National Elentari x86 and What Lies Beyond – Part 2
- CPU of the Day: National Elentari x86 and What Lies Beyond – Part 1
- The Story of the Soviet 8080 Processor – The 580
- The 486 CPU Era – The Birth of Overclocking. – Part 2
- The 486 CPU Era – The Birth of Overclocking. – Part 1
- The Story of the Soviet Z80 Processor
- Shanghai – World’s 1st 45nm Monolithic Quad Core x86 CPU – October, 2008
2020 15
- SEMICON WEST: A Blast from 1996
- SSQ22667-001: An 80C186 for the Space Station
- Aircraft Instrumentation, Bitchin’ Betty and an 80C86 CPU
- Finding the Limits of the Socket 8
- HP NanoProcessor Mask Set
- The Forgotten Ones: HP Nanoprocessor
- News: New Server for CPU Shack
- AMD Am29C327: How to Take a Picture of a Black Hole
- Chapter 2: Mini-Mainframe at Home: The Story of a 6-CPU Server from 1997
- DEC M7260 KD11-A CPU: The PDP-11 Goes MSI
- The Intel N60066: Unwrapping a Mystery
- ESA Solar Orbiter: When SPARCs Fly
- ARMing the Modems of the 1990’s
- Barn Find MOS MCS6502 – A Restoration
- Chips in Space: Making MILSTAR
2019 17
- RIP Chuck Peddle: Father of the 6502
- CPU of the Day: Motorola MC68040VL
- The Forgotten Ones: RISCy Business of Winbond
- The Story of the IBM Pentium 4 64-bit CPU
- Pardon the Mess…Upgrading PHP – FIXED
- Sushi Tacos and Lasers: Marking Intel Processors
- How to 386 Your AT: Intel Inboard 386/AT
- Xeon Overclocking: Making Gallatin Gallop
- All Boxed up: Retail Boxed CPU’s
- Tiered up for 3D-FPGAs: The Story of the Tier Logic FPGA-ASIC
- CPU of the Day: CS603RMP-200 PowerPC 603r Goes Golden
- CPU of the Day: UTMC UT69R000: The RISC with a Trick
- Intel Everest Goes to Auction
- Part 4: Mini-Mainframe at Home: Benchmarks and Overclocking
- Part 3: Mini-Mainframe at Home: The ALR 6×6 Hardware and BIOS
- Part 2: Mini-Mainframe at Home: Installing a Modern OS
- Part 1: Mini-Mainframe at Home: The Story of a 6-CPU Server from 1997
2018 16
- The End is Near (of the year) – A Look Back at Y2K
- The CPU Shack Museum Goes to SC18 in Texas
- Xilinx gets ARMed up for Free
- Peavey and the Motorola DSP56000
- CPU of the Day: FOCUS on 32-bits
- CPU of the Day: The 61 Knights of the Intel Xeon Phi
- A Sampling of Sample Processors
- CPU of the Day: The Intel Everest Series
- Image Gallery Thumbnails working again..
- The Collector’s Guide to Vintage Intel Microchips
- Mainframes and Supercomputers, From the Beginning Till Today.
- PowerPC Processor for TESS Planet Hunter – Updated
- Making MultiCore: A Slice of Sandy
- Intel’s Chipped Chips
- CPU of the Day: Intel Jayhawk – The Bird that Never Was
- CPU of the Day: Tandem CLX 800 – It Takes 2 To Tango
2017 23
- Chip of the Day: TRW MPY-16AJ – Making Multiplication Manageable
- CPU of the Day: Hitachi HD6801S0PJ – Automotive 6801
- New Test Board Available for Sale: Intel 3002 Bit-Slice Processor
- CPU of the Day: DEC LSI-11 Chipset
- CPU of the Day: Fairchild F9445: The MicroFlame Flames Out
- The CPU Shack Gets a Scope
- VLSI: What is this THING?
- Processing the Page Turn
- Intel Broadwell Broadens its Horizons…In Space
- ITT AN/ALQ-136 Countermeasures Processor – Bit Slice with a Bite
- Intel’s First: The 3101 64-bit Bipolar Memory
- SiFive FE310: Setting The RISC Free
- SESCOSEM and the French 6800
- Zycad: Emulating Hardware on Hardware
- TeraNex: Filling the GAPP
- MC6801/6803 Expansion Now Available for the 680x/650x Test System
- When Intel Runs out of Chips…..
- Aeroflex UT80CRH196KDS – The MCS-196 Goes to Space
- Milandr K1986VE91T – The ARM of Russia
- Matrox SX-900: x86 Accelerated GPU
- Stratus: Servers that won’t quit – The 24 year running computer.
- HP 1000 A700 Processor: Rise of the Phoenix
- HP 1000 A600: The Lighting Processor
2016 31
- HP 3000 Series 33: 16-bits of Sapphire
- More EPROM Die Fun
- GRAPE-6 Processor: A Gravitational Force of Reckoning
- East German IC Institutions
- Processors to Emulate Processors: The Palladium II
- Signetics 2650: An IBM on a Chip
- Testing all the ARMs
- OSIRIS-REx: Bringing Back Some Bennu
- Intel i486 Prototype: Intel’s Gamble with CISC
- CPU of the Day: Motorola MC6801 – The (second) first 6800 MCU
- Intel MCS-86 Test Systems now available.
- Sparkplugs, O-Scopes and Cell Phones…
- Juno Joins Jupiter: And Brings Some Computers For The Trip
- Signetics 2650 Test Boards Now Available
- Fujitsu to take ARM into the realm of Super
- Azul Systems Vega 3: 54 Cups of Coffee
- National Semiconductor SC/MP Test Boards Now Available
- The Evolution of the Intel 8051 Processes
- DEC NVAX++ NV5: The End of VAX
- Intel MCS-4/40 Test Boards Back in Stock and More Testers to Come
- Part 3: Vintage IC Collecting – The How.
- Milandr K1886VE: The PIC That Went to Russia
- Part 2: Vintage IC Collecting – The What.
- Part 1: Vintage IC Collecting – The Why.
- RCA CDP1855: A Multiplier for the COSMAC
- Reverse Engineering the ARM1 Processor
- The End of the Omega
- Microchip PIC’s up Atmel
- The Oracle SPARC M4 and how it became the M5 (but really didn’t)
- Signetics SPC-16/10: Another Mini goes Micro
- Siemens SAB80199: 16-bits for Europe
2015 33
- Akatsuki: Dawn rises again at Venus
- T-5 Delivers DRAM’s – Intel Open House ’83
- MHTL: Before the Processor
- Sun UltraSPARC IIIi+: The Serrano
- CPU of the Day: Military Signetics 8X305 Processor
- AMD 20 Processor Test Board – A Gang of Athlons
- Western Digital and the COP
- RCA CDP180x Boards Available, and National NSC800 Expansions
- The Electronika MK1 red3 PDP-11 Chipset and Tetris
- Sun CoolThreads UltraSPARC T1 Sample
- TI SN74LS481: A Better Bit-Slicer
- MCS-8 Test Boards Now For Sale
- The 16-bit Transistor level MegaProcessor
- MCS-4/40 Test Boards once again in stock
- Dallas: Reaffirming the Viability of the 8-bit Processor
- MG80386SX: Pin counts: How low can you go?
- TI TMS7000: The SCAT Microcontroller
- AMD AM29501: 8-bits to the ByteSlice
- The Forgotten Ones: Unisys SCAMP-D Mainframe
- Processor Die Photos by Christoph Morlinghaus
- The e2v PowerPC and HiTCE Packages
- I Just Poured Water on my Scanner….
- Intel MCS-4/40 Test Boards Back in Stock
- Emulating the Intel 8080 on a MOS 6502
- Dawn to Ceres: Processors for the Protoplanet
- DEC Rigel: VAX Shoots for the Stars
- NEC SX-ACE: Quad-core Vector Supercomputing
- MCS-85 and Zilog Z80 Expansion Boards
- A Forgotten 9900: The TI SBR9000
- TI TMS9900/SBP9900: Accidental Success
- MCS-4 Test Boards now available for Sale
- Hua Ko HKE65SC02PL – GTE Micros Asian Twin
- Sun UltraSPARC Rock: When is a core not a core?
2014 38
- Monsanto: Bringers of the Light
- TriMedia TM-1300: VLIW Processor for the World
- Makings of a Comet: The VAX 11/750
- MCS-80 Test Boards For Sale at the CPU Shack
- When a Minicomputer becomes a Micro: the DGC microNOVA mN601 and 602
- Apple A8X Processor: What does an X get you?
- Here comes Philae! Powered by an RTX2010
- Real3D – From Tank Simulators to Graphics Cards
- SGS-Ates M380 and GI LP8000 – 8 Bits for Europe
- Has the FDIV bug met its match? Enter the Intel FSIN bug
- Why the Zilog Z-80’s data pins are scrambled
- Apple A8 Processor: A smaller, faster A7
- National Semiconductor: The COP before the COPS
- MasPar: Massively Parallel Computers – 32 cores on a chip
- Improve Technologies Make-it 486 – 286 Upgrade
- National Semiconductor COP2404 – Dual Core Processor from 1982
- Four-Phase Systems AL1 Processor – 8-bits by Lee Boysel
- What’s Missing?
- An Interesting Fujitsu MCM Pentium Module
- CPU of the Day: NEC 78C11 Sample and the 78K family
- Early Unfinished Ceramic DIP Package
- Intel Joins Forces with Rockchip – ARM Meets x86
- Memorial Day Chip: Motorola 6800/BQCJC 8-Bits of Military spec
- Mystery Intel Engineering Sample
- CPU of the Day: Xionics XipChip1
- Soviet K573RF23 and the Mark of Quality
- HP C5061-3012 16-bit Processor
- Motorola 68020 Processor die shots and description
- The Forgotten Ones: HP D5061-30xx Processors
- IBM z800 MCM Mainframe Processor
- The Agilent ARM701 Processor
- The Unlikely Tale of How ARM Came to Rule the World
- CPU of the Day: IBM POWER5+ QCM
- Western Digital WD/9000 Pascal MicroEngine
- Welcome Back Rosetta: The Dynex MAS31750 Awakens
- Zilog Packaging Marketing Kit
- Zilog Educational Sample Kit
- HP PA-RISC PA-7000 – Multichip RISC
2013 47
- MAVEN To Mars: Another BAE RAD750 CPU
- Itanium is Dead – And other Processor News
- nCube and the Rise of the HyperCubes
- Honeywell 1750A-5V: MIL-STD-1750A Lives On
- When a Pentium 166 isn’t a Pentium 166
- Decryption by an Intel 80386 – Military Style
- Realtek RTL8186: MIPS by Lexra
- Hold the Phone – Why Intel Making the A7 Might Not Be Awesome – Updated
- Compaq 21364 Processor – The Omega of the Alpha
- Intel 8 Inch Flexible Disk – 1.2MB of Data
- ARCA: The Processor that came from the East
- AMD Am29116: A Bit Better than a Bit Slice Processor
- How To: Disassembling an IBM POWER4 MCM
- MOS Technology MCS6501 Processor
- Apple G3 Prototype: The Goleta and IBM Arthur Processor
- CPU of the Day: Intel Pentium Mechanical Sample
- CPU of the Day: Bell Labs BELLMAC-8 aka the WE212
- CPU of the Day: Fairchild F8 Microprocessor
- CPU of the Day: Military spec Thomson TS68040MFTB/C
- Another Apple 1 Computer, Another $671,400
- Invisible Processors: They have us surrounded
- MCU of the Day: ST7 Family: 68HC05 Reborn
- ALU of the Day: Bipolar B2120A-30
- CPU of the Day: Rockwell PPS-4/1 The other 4-bit Processor
- Project Unity: 15 Game Consoles and 18 Processors
- CPU of the Day: Scalable Superscalar 68060 Marketing Sample
- CPU of the Day: Motorola XC88110 88000 RISC Processor
- Just for Fun: Wafers – Lots and lots of Wafers
- Intel Pentium Processor Turns 20 Years Old
- CPU of the Day: IBM Micro/370 – True Mainframe on a chip
- ALU of the Day: Motorola MC14581CL – Logic 4 bits at a time
- IBM 3081 TCM Miniature Pendant
- CPU of the Day: Intel RUPI-44 The 8051’s lesser known cousin
- PENTIUM License Plate: One in a million, or 2
- Chuck Moore: Part 2: From Space to GreenArrays
- CPU of the Day: Intel 386 Double Stamp
- Charles Moore: From FORTH to Stack Processors and Beyond
- IBM Blue Gene/Q: The Heart of a Supercomputer
- Reading Mask ROMs – With Python image processing
- CPU of the Day: Unknown IBM MCM – Any ideas?
- CPU of the Day: The Largest Microchip PIC?
- CPU of the Day: New Logo – Old Processor: Intel 486 DX2 66
- CPU of the Day: Cypress CY7C601 25MHz SPARC
- The Intel 80186 Gets Turbocharged – VAutomation Turbo186
- Repair or Replace? Not always a choice.
- 2012: Year in Review: UV EPROMs
- 2012: Year in Review: Processors and FPUs
2012 20
- CPU of the Day: Scientific Micro Systems SMS300
- GPU of the Day: SGI GE7 Geometry Engine
- The WITCH Rises – Dekatron Computing
- 48 Cores and Beyond – Why more cores?
- Cyrix Joshua Processor – From Peppers to the Bible
- Paul Allen’s Living Computer Museum Opens To Public In Seattle
- Renesas: The Auto Bailout of the Semiconductor Industry
- Apple A6 vs Rockchip RK3066: 4 Years vs. 6 weeks of design
- CPU of the Day: Fairchild F9450 – Commercial Military
- EPROM of the Day: AMD AM27C2048 – Shrinking Dies
- CPU of the Day: MicroModule Systems Pentium Gemini
- EPROM of the Day: Plastic MME U552D – Intel 1702 Clone
- Apple iPhone Update: Whats changed since the iPhone 4
- Intel vs. The World – The Infamous ‘338 Patent
- “We are hitting the limits of physics in many cases” – IBM zEC12 5.5GHz
- The History of the Floppy Disk
- Hans Camenzind: 25 transistors, 2 diodes and 15 resistors that changed the times
- Spacecraft Processors: Mars Curiosity
- Nvidia GPU Engineering Samples
- PIXAR Image Computer: $30,000 for half price on eBay
2011 25
- Museum update: Several thousand added
- 30 Years ago today: The IBM 5150 PC
- What to do with a $200,000+ Vintage Computer?
- Intel’s Ivy Bridge: 50 Years of flat transistors come to an end
- EPROM of the Day: Intel D87C75PF The 8755 gets a boost
- 50 Years ago today: The IC was Patented
- Inside the 1802: a Visual6502.org View
- The Commodore is back!
- Osborne Computer: The Rise and Fall
- CPU of the Day: MMI 6701 Bit-Slice
- Chips of the day: TI TMS320E The tale of the two dies
- Apple A5 Updated Info
- CPU of the Day: NS87P50R-6: Piggyback CPUs
- The Windows Upgrade Path: Windows 1 to Windows 7
- The iPad 2: Apple joins the Dual-core crowd.
- Russian Computers on the Buran Shuttle
- The AMD 2901 Bit Slicer and Second Sourcing
- Processor News Round-up: More cores in more places
- Qualcomm for Apple: The iPhone 4 CDMA
- Atmel Buys MHS, Again – The Twisted History of Atmel, Temic and MHS
- How many Commodore 64 computers were really sold?
- Shrinking Process size Shrinking Foundry Selection
- IBM’s Server Processors: The RS64 and the POWER
- CPU of the Week: Intergraph Clipper C4 MCM
- The day has come, ARM + Microsoft Windows
2010 42
- CPU of the Day: Ferranti FBH 5092 – The F100L MCM
- Broadcom’s MIPS Chips
- Happy Thanksgiving
- Another Apple 1, Another Quarter Million Dollars
- Qualcomm Announces new SnapDragon Processor
- AMD Bobcat splits the Atom to the Core
- The History of the SMS300 and Signetics 8X300 Processors
- The next Generation of Application Processors
- Grampa Mac Portable, meet the baby MacBook Air
- Vintage Tech Ads from the days of lore.
- How The Newton And ARM Saved Apple From Death
- Before the PC, Before Apple, was the Xerox Alto
- Zilog: The First Decade: Z80, Z8 and the Z8000
- Soviet Beauties: Processors from behind the Iron Curtain
- The Rise of the Vortex86: Embedded x86 Processors
- Original Models: A Look at Iconic Tech Prototypes
- Arithmetic Processors: Then and Now
- Visual Transistor-level Simulation of the 6502 CPU
- Homebrew Cray-1A – 1976 vs 2010
- The Increasing Threat of Fake IC’s
- $23,000 for a 1MHz Computer – Only if its an Apple 1
- From Video Games to Deep Space – The RCA 1802 COSMAC
- The evolution of the Apple iPhone and its many CPU’s – Even within a model
- Unlocking EPROM cores?
- A look at the CPU Shack….Boxes Boxes and more
- Apple rumored to buy ARM Holdings
- Prayers for the People of Poland
- Cyrix MediaGX: From Cyrix to AMD – A bit a History
- Apple iPad Round up: Inside and Out The Processors of Apple’s Latest
- AMD Launches ‘Lottery-Core’ CPUs
- The Origin of ARM – New Finds for the Museum
- The processors of the Internet – Keeping the data flowing
- Intel Core i7-980X Extreme 6-Core Processor
- The 8-bit Legacy: Why They will never die
- Budgets: CPU’s on the cheap
- e-readers: Making them affordable
- Woops! Sorry about that.
- When Old is New: The VIA HT8501 Chipset: aka the VIAGRA
- Welcome to Our New Server
- The Brains of the iPad – The Apple A4 Processor
- Tegra 2: The Big ARM from Nvidia
- Counterfeit IC’s: A growing problem
2009 50
- EPROM of the Day: ST M27C160
- ARM and MIPS – The RISC Brothers
- (MMitsubishi + Hitachi = Renesas) + NEC = Renesas
- GlobalFoundries + Chartered = a new kid on the block
- The Renesas SuperH getts some added Super
- Circuit and die shot wallpaper
- The other Atmel: Radiation Hardened Sparc CPU’s
- 2mm x 2mm: And a full functioned 8051
- Sony Touchscreen Walkman X-series, no Cell to be found.
- TI Grabs Luminary by the ARM
- Some good news: A small uptick in the IC Industry.
- 25 Microchips that shook the world…
- Windows and ARM: What the market needs.
- CPU of the Day: A 2-bit slice of the past: 3002
- Amazons Kindle 2: A book with 4 brains
- Keeping your code safe: Secure Processors
- CPU of the Day: Radiation Hardened 8085 Processor
- EPROM of the day: Intel MC1702A/C – Miltary Antique
- Prayers and well wishes to all the Italians involved in the Quake
- SiCortex: Energy Efficient Super Computing
- Atmel’s new Tiny AVR: a CPU that runs on a single AA battery
- Freescale Releases new 6-core Comm. Processors
- CPU of the Day: A PICture from the Past
- Sony Mystery CPU revealed: The CXP83601
- Museum Update: Yes, we do have more CPU’s
- ARM Prototypes: Coming soon to a netbook near you.
- Intel Splits the Atom, with TSMC
- A Burning Ember – The ZigBee XAP-RISC Processor
- New tiny ARM Cortex-M0 Core – Return of the 80186?
- Zilog strips down to its core
- Modern CPU Flops: Itanic, PowerPC, and Puma
- Processor of the day: COP8 – Now in Gold
- CSR and SiRF Merge – ARM meet XA-RISC
- EPROM of the Week: Electronic Arrays – EA2708
- Processor of the day: Stretch S6100 and S6106
- Midget ARMs – NEC’s new Camera phone processor
- Mystery Uncovered: National Winbond Nuvoton PC97551
- Software Configurable Processors – The Stretch S6000 Line
- Rare CPU Find of the Day: National Semiconductor IMP16A-500D
- Chip market down 28%, Suppliers, down over 40%
- Renesas Dual-Core for your car
- ARM Processor find of the day. A Marvell in engineering.
- Processor of the day..3 ARM’s on a chip.
- CPU Find of the Day.. Intel’s New/Old I/O Processor
- Manufacturer of the week …. AmLogic
- CPU Find of the Day… an Oasis of Semiconductors
- Dual core CPU…For $1?
- Marvel releases 1Ghz CPU design for….
- Processor Find of the Day
- The World’s Largest Online CPU Museum!