Silicon Wafer - nCube 2 Silicon Wafer - Supercomputer, Parallel, Hypercube, Artwork

About this Artwork: This listing is for an artwork that features a rare nCube 2 supercomputer silicon wafer. This nCube 2 silicon wafer was produced in 1990. There are about 32 microprocessors on this 4 inch wafer. The dies are fairly large for the time at about 14mm square. Near the edges you will see partial chips. The wafer would be scored and diced into individual dice, or chips. nCube was founded in 1983 to compete in the hypercube parallel supercomputer market.  The first machine was called the nCube 10 for its ability to create an order-ten hypercube. It could support over a 1,000 processors in a single system. Advanced for its time, it could also support the partitioning of the system in sub-nodes to be allocated to different users and workloads. In 1985, the first generation of the nCube system used a custom set of chips for each processor. Introduced in 1989, the next generation, nCube 2, produced a complete processor on a single chip. The nCube 2 was over three times faster