In collecting chips, you will start to learn more about them. You have questions and you will learn. The strange thing about learning is that the more you learn, the more questions your mind creates. I have included here a few topics about chip technology, chips functions, and chip history.
Chip-ology
The ENIAC vs. The Cell Phone
It is often difficult to get a perspective on how much things change. The technology culture of 1945 almost seems a different universe from the culture technology is creating today. Computers are enabling amazing things, impossible things, to become possible. People complain that technology today is too complex, that talking to computers requires too much …
Art on Chips
Chip designers have been hiding tiny artworks, and their initials, on chips for years. Here is a great site at Florida State University: http://micro.magnet.fsu.edu/creatures/index.html Also, the Smithsonian Institution has a great site as well: http://smithsonianchips.si.edu/chipfun/graff.htm
How are Chips Made?
Silicon wafers are cut from a silicon crystal, such as this one Computer chips are made from silicon and this is a very good thing because silicon is the second most common element on the earth. However, the silicon must be made very, very pure and grown as a single crystal. Silicon crystals are made …
Other Great Chip Sites
Chip Collecting is huge subject. There are so many different angles to attack the subject, it would be amazing if everyone approached it the same way. And so, we have a wide variety of web sites that are great references for the chip collecting community. I would recommending setting aside time to visit each site …