Intel's $475M error: the silicon behind the Pentium division bug(righto.com)

362 points by gslin 1 year ago | 110 comments

Ken Shirriff's blog post examining the Pentium die to show where the 1994 floating-point division bug lies in the silicon and why it occurred.

The complex history of the Intel i960 RISC processor(righto.com)

111 points by zdw 3 years ago | 55 comments

Two interesting XOR circuits inside the Intel 386 processor(righto.com)

82 points by _Microft 2 years ago | 13 comments

Intel x86 documentation has more pages than the 6502 has transistors (2013)(righto.com)

221 points by optimalsolver 3 years ago | 98 comments

The microcode and hardware in the 8086 processor that perform string operations(righto.com)

155 points by picture 3 years ago | 94 comments

The Intel 8088 processor's instruction prefetch circuitry: a look inside(righto.com)

178 points by matt_d 2 years ago | 42 comments