tech9 wrote:
How may you tell If a CPU is fiber, plastic, or Ceramic?
Original question:
Ceramic is a hard earthen material that will look like miniature floor tiles with gold pins or pads. Grey, blue, white and black are most common
Intel 386/486/pentium. AMD k5/k6. Motorola 6XXX. SUN Power and Sparc. IBM 5XX, 8XX, PowerPC. 1970s and early 1980s Zylog. WinChip.
Fibre CPUs are made from a polymer plastic. Black, brown, and green are most common, though white red and black exist.
Intel core i series, Celeron. AMD Athlon, FX, +. IBM 3XX. Motorola C series CPUs.
Finally there's molded plastic. No modern x86 cpu has ever been released to consumers in molded plastic. Any molded plastic cpu goes as an ic. Such CPUs will always go as ICs.
Post-1994 Zylog CPUs. Modern intel 860/890/980/990, modern Post-1996 iNtel 386/486 CPUs. Motorola 7XX CPUs, e model CPUs. some low cost VIA CPUs are molded plastic as well.
Take a look at the gallery cpu page (gallery top left of home page) to see some examples.