Intel C80286 4

An early and low clocked 286: 1984 and 4MHz :). As far as I know the 4MHz model wasn't used in desktop PC's but did find it's way in a Matrox SX-900 graphics card (see third photo).

This CPU is also housed in the LGA-packaging. A bit more fragile than PGA (with pins on the CPU), yet it looks nice. In the x86 market the LGA-socket disappeared until 2003 when Intel started using it again for the Pentium 4.

An interesting article has been written on CPUShack:

The Matrox SX-900 was a standard MULTIBUS card with support for 640x480x8bit graphics. It supported a fill rate of 20 MPixels/sec which was very impressive in 1984. By comparison, the Nvidia NV1 (STG-2000) released in 1995, was only capable of a 12MPixel/sec fill rate, albeit at a richer color depth.

Specifications

Core / Codename
Clockfrequency
4MHz
Front Side Bus
4MHz
Multiplier
1x
vCore
5V
L1 cache
0KB
L2 cache
None
sSpec
N/A
Chip date
8437
Stepping
?
Socket
Transistor count
0.134
Condition
CPU only
Engineering sample?
No

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