Super rare 4 inch silicon wafer - 1989 NCUBE-2 SuperComputer CPU - $550 - (Huntsville, AL)

More photos to come. This sale is for one ULTRA rare silicon wafer of 1989 NCUBE-2 supercomputer CPUs. From the early history of parallel super computers and at a small fraction of it's original cost. The die photos shown have a 1990 date on the silicon, however this early version wafer is marked 1989 on the silicon. NCUBE was founded in 1983 by former Intel employees to implement the massive parallel computing concept with CPUs of N dimensions. NCUBEs first creation was an order ten CPU known as the NCUBE-10. In 1987 a Sandia National Labs machine built with 1024 NCUBE-10 CPUs won the first Gordon Bell prize ever awarded for high performance computing. This machine showed a phenomenal 400-600 times speedup in the applications run. The NCUBE 2 was the second generation CPU. Designed with 12 inter CPU communication ports for order twelve hypercube configurations it allowed up to a 4096 CPU hypercube. Although history shows that the largest system constructed was 1024 CPUs, the machine reached over 1.9 GFlops, a very impressive mark for the time. Die photos by Pauli Rautakorpi See many other rare and beautiful tech collectibles in my ebay store. Thanks for looking!

Posted in Huntsville, AL, Electronics
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