It’s the 8008, the first #8bit CPU of #Intel… I stitched 216 individual #microscopy pictures to get this high resolution canvas of the die from 1971. (8/n)
@duke_cpu Could you overlay the microarchitecture over the die?
@realNachawati Yes I can and will do…
@duke_cpu . For those curious about the HF...🤔 "HF" stands for Hal Feeney (H) and Federico Faggin (F). Hal Feeney was the project engineer responsible for the detailed logic design, circuit design, and physical layout of the chip. Federico Faggin, the overall project leader, supervised
@Highly_Cynical Thanks for your comment. Although it sounds highly plausible, I did not find concrete evidence for HF standing for Hal F. AND Frederico Faggin. There is no doubt about the team setup, book there is no clear mentioning about your theory….
@duke_cpu Are these images available? If I can get access, I can help convert the images to circuit netlists, then we can possibly convert this to SystemVerilog. The Intel 8008 and 4004 are important historical artifacts from computer architecture canon, let's preserve them!
@ToddMAustin Working on making it available
@duke_cpu Where did you get the microscopy pictures? Did you take them?
@emrahdma All my pictures…
@duke_cpu Nice. How about the 4004?
@daveguidos Coming this week
@duke_cpu Thanks for this, super cool. 8bit processor with 8 bytes of ram! How I learned digital electronics. The SAP computer.
@duke_cpu can I buy this as a poster?
@duke_cpu It'll be interesting when an EMP fries electronics somewhere in the world, and it starts all over, from scratch aka 8 bit chips ! Save that pic, print it, hard copy, roll it in a tube.
@duke_cpu Where can the raw image be found uncompressed?
@duke_cpu No easter eggs :( but has quirks. Note the triple-duty bus multiplexing due to the constrained 18-pin package.
@duke_cpu That's an incredible photograph. I wonder where the Terminator arm is now that came with the original "sample".
@duke_cpu looks like my last Factorio game. Great work!
@duke_cpu @themactep, only the 8008 from 54yrs ago yet still incredibly mind-blowing under the microscope!
@duke_cpu Did Intel no longer have these kinds of records/images?
@duke_cpu Amazing! The start of it all! I wrote code for TI 4 bitters.
@duke_cpu looks like Factorio
@duke_cpu Simply fantastic die, great work! It is so interesting and beautiful.
@duke_cpu Selling a print?
@duke_cpu Damn now that is sexy