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Bit Slicing - Growing article, with links to many related topics. [Wikipedia]
AMD 2901 Bit-Slice Processor Family - Information, photos, identification, links to pinouts, support and second-source chips. [CPU-World]
Exploiting Bit slice Inactivities for Reducing Energy Requirements of Superscalar Processors - Simulating SPEC 95 execution benchmarks on detailed register level, cycle-by-cycle superscalar CPU shows how to use lack of data stream entropy to cut power use.
The Microprocessor Decentralized: A Bit-Slice Processor, the 2901 - Description, photo of Advanced Micro Devices (AMD) 1975 chip. [The Chip Collection, State of the Art, Smithsonian Institution]

Bit slicing - Bit slicing is a technique for constructing a processor from modules of smaller bit width. Each of these components processes one bit field or "slice" of an operand.
Texas Instruments TMS9900 - Introduced in 1976 and based on the Texas Instruments 990 minicomputer CPU, the TMS9900 was one of the first true 16-bit microprocessors (the first were probably National Semiconductor IMP-16 or AMD-2901 bit slice processors in 16 bit configuration). It was designed as a single chip version of the TI 990 minicomputer series, much like the Intersil 6100 was a single chip PDP-8, and the Fairchild 9440 and Data General mN601 were both one chip versions of Data General' ...
AMD Am2900 - Am2900 is a family of integrated circuits (ICs) created in 1975 by Advanced Micro Devices (AMD). They were constructed with bipolar devices, in a bit-slice topology, and were designed to be used as modular components each representing a different aspect of a computer control unit (CCU).
Lilith (computer) - Lilith is the name of custom built workstation using the AMD 2901 bit-slice processor by the group of Niklaus Wirth at ETH Zürich. The project started in 1977 and by 1984 several hundred workstations were in use.