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

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

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