This interesting part caught my eye when I came across it in a scrap circuit board listing on Ebay. These parts turned out to be the AD14160, also referred to as the Quad SHARC. This is because it actually contains four ADSP-21060 SHARC cores inside of it. These SHARC chips have a hidden silicon doodle of a shark on them.
In this video, I open up one of these AD14160 parts for viewing under the microscope. I also did a bit of digging and learned about the circuit board that it was soldered to.
Timestamps:
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0:00 Video Intro
0:57 IXTHOS circuit board
2:17 Intro to AD14160 and ADSP-21060
3:50 Removing parts
4:53 Sanding the AD14160
5:44 First look inside
6:30 View under the microscope
7:45 Outro
8:30 Bonus extra clips and pics
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