Музей электронных раритетов

Huge collection of Soviet-made ICs -- lots of information about what's in all the different series.

to 1801 555 chip ic retrotech russia soviet ... on 07 January 2016

Sean Riddle's Home Page - IC Decapping

Die shots of various games/consumer electronics chips. Lots of other interesting stuff about the workings of arcade games here too.

to arcade chip decap electronics games ic reverse-engineering ... on 31 December 2015

Espressif ESP8266 WiFi-serial interface : weekend die-shot : ZeptoBars

I really like the inductors -- old-fashioned pancake coils in miniature!

to chip coil die electronics inductor photography reverse-engineering ... on 13 March 2015

CPU-World.com forums :: View topic - Birdman's Die Shot Collection

Links to pictures of all sorts of CPUs. (The one I was after -- the Russian 8085 clone -- isn't here, though!)

to chip cpu die electronics photo semiconductor ... on 22 August 2014

monolithic integrated circuits

Early IC families. I've got a few of these in my interesting-old-parts tray (and rather a lot of the uPD RTL chips).

to chip electronics history ic retrotech ... on 16 March 2012

www.Visual6502.org

The 6502 emulated, at the transistor level, in Javascript. Words fail me.

to 6502 chip cpu design electronics retrocomputing ... on 19 September 2010

Physical Fabrication of Transistors

Notably, the history of transistor (and early IC) construction.

to chip electronics history ic retrotech semiconductor transistor ... on 22 September 2009

the first integrated circuits

This includes a picture of an early DTL IC from the same series I've got, and is generally a good overview of early chips.

to chip electronics history ic retrotech semiconductor ... on 21 September 2009