Resources
From CPU Graveyard - Dieshots
Amateur die photographers with large collections
- Martijn Boer (flickr PD) (siliconpr0nCC BY)
- Zeptobars [active]
- Pauli Rautakorpi / Birdman86 ( flickr) (Wiki Commons) [inactive]
- Fritzchens Fritz (flickr) [active]
- Cole L ( flickr) [active]
- https://www.tinytransistors.net (Unknown license) [active]
- yellowcloud (flickr) [inactive]
- Flylogic (blog archived) (dieshots) [inactive]
- Epop (Wiki Commons) [inactive]
- https://diephotos.blogspot.com/ (Unknown license) [inactive]
- https://www.cpu-galaxy.at/Article/microscope.htm (Copyrighted)
- Antoine Bercovici / aberco / Siliconinsider (X, BY-NC-SA-4.0) [active]
- (instagram(broken),BY-NC-SA-4.0) (Wiki Commons,BY-SA-3.0) (cpu-world forum) (on siliconpr0n,BY-NC-SA-4.0)[inactive]
- evilmonkeyzdesignz (instagram) (X) (homepage) (Youtube) [active]
- Tommi Lempinen dieshots,CC-BY-SA) See: License
- Alec Hodges (Flickr) (copyrighted) [inactive]
- Shane Phillips (Flickr) (copyrighted) [inactive]
- Ryan Cornateanu / Ryan Ringo / ryancor (X) (Instagram) (siliconpr0n) (medium.com)CC BY 4.0 [active]
Reverse engineers
- Visual6502 (homepage) (wiki) (blog) (BY-NC-SA-3.0 Unported)
- Sean Riddle (blog) (wiki commons) (homepage) (CC BY 3.0)
- Ken Shirriff (blog/homepage) (X) (CC BY 4.0)
- Sam Zeloof (twitter)
- John McMaster (homepage) (blog) (X) (CMOSfold) (github) (CC-BY)
- The Guru's ROM dumping news
- nico (homepage archived) (siliconpr0n)
- CAPSOff (Blog) (Siliconpr0n)
- https://www.oguchi-rd.com/LSI%20products.php (Calculator ICs)
- Furrtek (@siliconpr0n) (X) (Patreon) (CC-BY 4.0)
- lanceewing mos-6561 hd6845sp Mullard SAA5050 (converted to SVG)
- https://project5474.org/ - 54xx/74xx-series logic chips
- Andrew Zonenberg Silicon Exposed X (CC-BY)
- Locuza https://locuza.substack.com/
Commercial reverse engineering/evaluation
- https://www.chiprebel.com/store/ (Copyrighted, many for pay) (Flickr)
- https://www.texplained.com/ (Copyrighted, need to register)
- https://chipworksrealchips.blogspot.com/
- Tech Insights blog
Free/Open sources
- https://siliconpr0n.org/archive/doku.php?id=collection (Various open licenses) (backdoor, to images)
- Wikimedia Commons Category:Integrated_circuit_dies(Various open licenses)
Manufacturer die photo releases
- AMD (amd_unprocessed Flickr) (Global Flickr) (copyrighted)
- Computer History Museum: Historical Die Photos (Copyright)
- http://www.inmos.com/images/index.html (Copyright, Inmos) Ken (ken@hedd???.com) verified dieshots created by Inmos.
- Intel (Museum Images) (Newsroom) (history) (Flickr) (Flickr Italia) (Website history)
- IBM (Flickr archived) (IBM Research Zurich)
- DEC Microprocessors (Copyright, DEC)
- VIA (flickr) (only a few die floorplan)
Copyrighted/Licensed die photos
- CPU-World die photos (copyrighted, William Blair)
- Molecular Expressions (copyright, Michael W. Davidson and The Florida State University)
- https://richis-lab.de/ (German) (Copyrighted)
- Oleg Kashirin (Copyrighted)
- https://www.flickr.com/photos/153549221@N02/ - copyrighted dieshots
- Alec Hodges
Chip Art / Silicon art / Chip Graffiti
- siliconpr0n - true mask art
- Silicon Zoo (inactive)
- Chipworks Silicon Art Library (archived)
- Smithsonian Chip Fun (archived)
- Evilmonkeyz Designz - (homepage) (instagram) (Facebook) (X) (TikTok) (active)
layouts
- Wikichip, great source for die layouts and descriptions (Ambiguous license)
Random resources
- Wikichip, great source for die layouts and descriptions (Ambiguous license)
- Creative Commons search
- https://www.cpu-world.com/forum/viewtopic.php?p=186997 (Ambiguous license)
- http://web.archive.org/web/20181119105240/http://cpuporn.tumblr.com/ (Archived)
- http://asic.ethz.ch/all/chips.html (500+ ICs)
University dies
- Berkeley Hardware Prototypes (Unknown license)
CPU history
- QDPMA.com - Processor Architectures and History
- http://www.ummr.altervista.org/misc_chips_and_boards.htm (Italian)
- https://www3.nd.edu/~kogge/courses/cse40462-VLSI-fa18/www/chips.html links
- http://www.tayloredge.com/museum/processor/ (Unknown license)
Journals
Conferences
- https://www.hotchips.org/ - conference for all major CPU designers and manufacturers
CPU Lists
- https://www.cpu-world.com/forum/viewtopic.php?t=19888
- https://infomars.fr/forum/index.php?showtopic=668
Forum resources
- CPU World: forum: Die photography, wafers and memorabilia
- http://radiopicture.listbb.ru/index.php Huge collection of mostly soviet clones (Russia)
Other
- http://pages.cs.wisc.edu/~cain/images/diephotos/ (Unknown license)
- http://www.cpushack.com/PA-RISC.html (Ambiguous license)
- https://www.intel-vintage.info/apps/photos/album?albumid=11079855 (Ambiguous license)
- F-14 Tomcat - multi-microprocessor chip-set (Copyrighted)
- http://web.archive.org/web/20160923235645/http://microblog.routed.net/category/icf/ (Unknown license)
- Die shots of VIC II 6569 R1, R3 and SID 6581 R2, R3, R4AR, 8580R5
- https://www.experimental-engineering.co.uk/ Some decaps (copyrighted)
- https://lithcore.cn/decaps/
- https://blackrockdieshots.blogspot.com/ small collection of ASICs
- https://artof.science - Chip Art
- https://www.flickr.com/photos/oldtor/albums/72157694351497464
- onidev/TICS/Boris Marmontel (homepage) (twitter) Copyrighted
- https://gekkio.fi/
- https://twitter.com/NakedHardware (Video)
- https://twitter.com/SaschaNaske
