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I’ve never seen one soldered but I know it’s a more valuable chip...Am I able to remove this?

Only time I ever saw that was portables.
Don’t remove it. I’ll forward this to Chris but my guess is gold cap chip board. It’s the same low profile 486 used in self booting terminals.

If you remove it it would likely be a sun cpu.

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Let me know what you find out from Chris :-)

If you are able to remove the cpu, without breaking off the pins, and if the pins have no residual solder on them, and the cpu is gold capped on back, then it would be purchased as a 486 cpu at the going rate, otherwise it would be somewhat devalued depending on the condition.

The board unaltered, with the 486 left on it, would be purchased as a Gold Capped Chip Board .

Based on that let me quickly folly up with this note.
These are typically stub pin pga CPUs. Not micro pin. Meaning you need a bit of gentle force to pry them loose after heating the reverse side of the socket. Stub pins are slightly wider than the pin holes they go in. As well as longer than micros and shorter than standard.
IThey tend to form a bit to the board’s peculiarities when they are heated for insertion and during normal use. My suggestion would actually be a putty knife and heat gun. Not a screwdriver. The wider the better.

Gentle firm lifting pressure one side at a time so you don’t break any pins.
Chris won’t freak over one or two pins. But you definitely don’t want to loose half of them! ;)
And fwiw I’ve never gotten one loose fully intact. I use a desoldering needle to clean up the holes afterwards.

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