These new die photos are in this article, along with a discussion of the 8008's internal design. The photo below shows the tiny silicon die inside the 8008 package (click for higher resolution photo).

The individual chips, "die", are cut or snapped from this wafer to produce the fingernail-sized silicon rectangles that are then glued into the familiar caterpillar-like packages commonly called ...

Their Apple Computer Company would evolve into one of the fastest-growing companies in what had become known as Silicon Valley. As the microprocessor's development had kickstarted the memory IC ...

Silicon ingot. Multiple purification and filtering processes are performed in order to deliver electronic-grade silicon, which has a purity of 99.9999%.

One way that silicon suppliers reduce manufacturing costs is by discontinuing older product portfolios leading to microprocessor obsolescence. Multiple versions of those processor cores and a mix of ...

Chipmaker Intel says that from start to finish, it takes a total of 300 steps for a microprocessor to be completed. The process involves layering various materials on top of thin rounds of silicon ...

LONDON — Microprocessor company Advanced Micro Devices Inc. has signed a technology license for “floating-body” silicon-on-insulator (SOI) memory developed by startup company Innovative Silicon Inc.

Sept. 23, 2004 — -- The Word of the Day is "multicore." Don't worry about precisely what the word means — it'll soon be attached to a whole bunch of new products that have little to do with ...