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Eight More '8-Bit Era' Microprocessors(thechipletter.substack.com)

77 points by klelatti 5 months ago | 30 comments

The PC was never a true 'IBMer'(thechipletter.substack.com)

64 points by klelatti 1 year ago | 67 comments

MIPS – The hyperactive history and legacy of the pioneering RISC architecture(thechipletter.substack.com)

54 points by rbanffy 1 year ago | 17 comments

Personal Computer Origins: The Datapoint 2200(thechipletter.substack.com)

19 points by rbanffy 1 year ago | 1 comments

Learning Assembly for Fun, Performance and Profit(thechipletter.substack.com)

54 points by klelatti 1 year ago | 11 comments

The Soul of an Old Machine(thechipletter.substack.com)

37 points by rbanffy 1 year ago | 11 comments

Happy 18th Birthday CUDA!(thechipletter.substack.com)

4 points by chmaynard 1 year ago | 0 comments

Modern Baby: A pioneering computer from Manchester(thechipletter.substack.com)

63 points by klelatti 1 year ago | 7 comments

Back to the Future with Gordon Moore(thechipletter.substack.com)

9 points by mooreds 1 year ago | 0 comments

The Nvidia Way(thechipletter.substack.com)

144 points by klelatti 1 year ago | 48 comments

Qualcomm RISCs, Arm Pulls: The Legal Battle for the Future of Client Computing(thechipletter.substack.com)

27 points by chmaynard 1 year ago | 4 comments

Wafer Scale – Trilogy Systems: Part 2(thechipletter.substack.com)

11 points by klelatti 2 years ago | 0 comments

Wafer Scale and Trilogy Systems: Part 1(thechipletter.substack.com)

17 points by signa11 2 years ago | 2 comments

AT&T's Hobbit Microprocessor (2023)(thechipletter.substack.com)

97 points by klelatti 2 years ago | 34 comments

How Intel Missed the iPhone: The XScale Era(thechipletter.substack.com)

98 points by chmaynard 2 years ago | 86 comments

Intel's Immiseration(thechipletter.substack.com)

177 points by rbanffy 2 years ago | 185 comments

Spur – RISC IV: The Lisp Multiprocessor Workstation(thechipletter.substack.com)

110 points by oumua_don17 2 years ago | 56 comments

Demystifying NPUs: Questions and Answers(thechipletter.substack.com)

91 points by rbanffy 2 years ago | 29 comments

SOAR-ing Away with Smalltalk: Berkeley RISC-III(thechipletter.substack.com)

35 points by rbanffy 2 years ago | 1 comments

Compiler Explorer(thechipletter.substack.com)

81 points by rbanffy 2 years ago | 10 comments

How Long Will x86 Endure?(thechipletter.substack.com)

3 points by klelatti 2 years ago | 0 comments

Google's First Tensor Processing Unit: Architecture(thechipletter.substack.com)

324 points by c_joly 2 years ago | 172 comments

A Chip Letter Substack post examining the architecture of Google's first Tensor Processing Unit (TPU v1), following an earlier post on its origins.

Moore on Moore – The past, present and uncertain future of Moore's Law(thechipletter.substack.com)

83 points by klelatti 2 years ago | 34 comments

Motorola's 6809: The Best 8-Bit?(thechipletter.substack.com)

4 points by klelatti 2 years ago | 0 comments

John C. Dvorak on Intel's First Neural Network Chip in 1990(thechipletter.substack.com)

92 points by klelatti 2 years ago | 57 comments

Satya Nadella uses an IBM AS/400 in 1993(thechipletter.substack.com)

226 points by klelatti 2 years ago | 134 comments

Demystifying GPU compute architectures(thechipletter.substack.com)

173 points by rbanffy 2 years ago | 45 comments

60-Bit Computing (2022)(thechipletter.substack.com)

63 points by klelatti 2 years ago | 63 comments

Leaving Arizona – the Story of the Motorola 6800 part 2 and creation of the 6502(thechipletter.substack.com)

110 points by zdw 2 years ago | 30 comments

Tiny Computers from Texas: The Early History of the Microcontroller(thechipletter.substack.com)

89 points by klelatti 2 years ago | 5 comments

Motorola's pioneering 8-bit 6800: Origins and architecture(thechipletter.substack.com)

126 points by klelatti 2 years ago | 67 comments

The 8-bit era: Eight processor designs(thechipletter.substack.com)

100 points by rbanffy 2 years ago | 57 comments

The 8-Bit Era: Eight Iconic Processor Designs(thechipletter.substack.com)

4 points by rbanffy 2 years ago | 0 comments

Intel vs. NEC: The Case of the V20's Microcode(thechipletter.substack.com)

53 points by klelatti 3 years ago | 12 comments

Bytecode and the Busicom (2022)(thechipletter.substack.com)

9 points by FullyFunctional 3 years ago | 0 comments

Projects Innovating Around RISC-V(thechipletter.substack.com)

50 points by cpeterso 3 years ago | 20 comments

Inmos and the Transputer – Parallel Ventures(thechipletter.substack.com)

41 points by klelatti 3 years ago | 26 comments

Captain Zilog Crushed: The Story of the Z8000(thechipletter.substack.com)

86 points by thedday 3 years ago | 50 comments

RISC-V Origins and Architecture, Part 1(thechipletter.substack.com)

54 points by ChuckMcM 3 years ago | 12 comments

Xerox PARC Special(thechipletter.substack.com)

63 points by giuliomagnifico 3 years ago | 13 comments

Ericsson to WhatsApp: The Story of Erlang(thechipletter.substack.com)

234 points by tim_sw 3 years ago | 67 comments

The First 'Apple Silicon' – The Aquarius Processor Project(thechipletter.substack.com)

53 points by tim_sw 3 years ago | 9 comments

The RISC Wars Part 1: The Cambrian Explosion(thechipletter.substack.com)

61 points by tim_sw 3 years ago | 38 comments

RISC on a Chip: David Patterson and Berkeley RISC-I(thechipletter.substack.com)

94 points by lproven 3 years ago | 9 comments

iAPX432: Gordon Moore, Risk and Intel’s Super-CISC Failure(thechipletter.substack.com)

123 points by klelatti 3 years ago | 65 comments