- Die photos and analysis of the revolutionary 8008 microprocessor, 45 years old (righto.com)
Intel’s groundbreaking 8008 microprocessor was first produced 45 years ago. This chip, Intel’s first 8-bit microprocessor, is the ancestor of the x86 processor family that you may be using right now. I couldn’t find good die photos of the 8008, so I opened one up and took some detailed photographs. These new die photos are in this article, along with a discussion of the 8008’s internal design.
- Volgograd Oblast (Wikipedia)
Volgograd Oblast (Russian: Волгогра́дская о́бласть, romanized: Volgogradskaya oblastʹ) is a federal subject (an oblast) of Russia, located in the lower Volga region of Southern Russia. Its administrative center is Volgograd. The population of the oblast was 2,500,781 in the 2021 Census.
