🇺🇦 haxadecimal 🚫👑brouhaha@mastodon.social
Aug 27, 2026, 5:55 AMEveryone seems to think that "chiplet" technology is something new that AMD or Intel invented recently. Actually, IBM invented it at least as far back as 1987!
![[ photo of an IBM 1 mibibit dynamic RAM chip encapsulated in transparent epoxy as a promotional item]
The newest IBM one-million-bit memory chip used in the IBM 3090 is now available as a [italic]chiplet[/italic] -- a dime-sized, epoxy-encapsulated [italic]real chip[/italic] with an adhesive back. Ask your IBM marketing representative for your [italic]free[/italic] megabit of memory today.
-- "The IBM 3090 Processor Family: A Balance of Technology and Design", G580-1005-0, July 1987](https://files.mastodon.social/media_attachments/files/117/165/910/958/013/537/original/cd13334d52093115.png)
Everyone seems to think that "chiplet" technology is something new that AMD or Intel invented recently. Actually, IBM invented it at least as far back as 1987!