68kMLA

hmm, are you sure this isn’t a remarked 68LC040?

Can't say I've ever seen this stage of the chip making process before very neat!

It's a military/space packaging, they are delivered like that so that the end user can shape the pins according to the application.

I keep trying to find stickers and badges of that 040 branding style. The one that sticks out in my head is the black background, white text, and a red (I think) exclamation point. Sadly, I've not found any. I'd really love a little aluminum plate with that logo on it that I could affix to a heatsink kind of like the way the badges on 486 Overdrive chips are branded.

Wasn’t that 040 styling used on the Mobius upgrade cards/marketing?

Prior to seeing this Motorola CPU I thought Mobius had come up with the design.

MacUser Oct 93:

It is motorola official branding for the 040. Motorola used it on some of their early commercial samples. My gold chip above is an engineering sample of the milspec chip.
I wish they used it for all their production chips.

I guess we could always reprint our legitimate chips with the fake branding using whatever method the counterfeiters use to print legit branding on fake chips.

That milspec chip is pretty cool but it appears it's meant for surface mounting which, if used instead of PGA, would have put a cramp in a good number of Mac shenanigans over the years. I do wish they had put the branding on the chips, though. It looks really good.