Examining a vintage RAM chip, I find a counterfeit with a different die inside
One of the first pics in that article comes from an earlier chip he previously reviewed - the Intel 3101. I'm proud to say my dad provided Ken with those two Intel 3101 chips.<p>Ken's review of the 3101 is here:
<a href="http://www.righto.com/2017/07/inside-intels-first-product-3101-ram.html?m=1" rel="nofollow">http://www.righto.com/2017/07/inside-intels-first-product-31...</a><p>This is the first IC ever produced by Intel.<p>My dad had a few of these chips from an old computer. Some of the 3101 chips are from such early runs they don't even have the usual date stamps on the packages, and were outsourced by Intel into generic wirebonded IC packages.