Commodore Amiga Silicon Wafers, Alice, AA Gayle, Fat Gary. Vintage
Item History & Price
3 Silicon Wafers containing the dies for 3 chips used in the Commodore Amiga computer.
1- ALICE 8374
Alice is a DMA controller used in the AGA systems.
2- AA-GAYLE 4145RO
AA_Gayle, Memory control, I/O card interface and IDE Hard Drive interface.
3- FAT GARY 414RO
Fat Gary was Gary's upgrade for the 32-bit A3000/T and A4000/T.
Gary, short fo...r Gate Array, has been used in the Amiga 500, 2000(B) and CDTV. Gary provides glue logic for bus control and houses supporting functions for the floppy disk drive. It integrates many functions built discretely in the earlier Amiga 1000 in order to reduce costs.
This 3 wafers are 4" diameter, originally this wafers diameter was 6" but they were laser cut down to 4" to be re-used, I'm lucky i could save this 3 only.
Under microscope you can read the numbers corresponding to each chip, date and company ( CBM ) Commodore Business Machine.
