Gregory's ServerThe instruction set was very complicated, object-oriented, and not byte aligned, with instructions from 6 to 321 bits long. It took a whole chip just to decode instructions. This chip then executed them. Here's the die with the main functional blocks labeled.
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 Thanks to Tom Lyon for providing the wafer. With a big die and a small 4" wafer, each wafer only held a few chips, especially when many of the ones around the edge were truncated. 
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@rotopenguin Those are test dies to check the characteristics of the wafer. They need to be spread out across the wafer to get accurate measurements. Pushing them to the edges would defeat the purpose.  @kenshirriff Do you have any idea what the five very different chips are - the top, bottom, left, right and centre ones? I guess some kind of test chip?  |
My favorite part of the layout is in the corner where the bus lines turn from vertical to horizontal with a diagonal transition. That left a gap in the corner, so they kind of threw the clock buffer circuits into the unused space.