Examining the silicon dies of the Intel 386 processor(righto.com)

259 points by Tomte 3 years ago | 55 comments

Diode Matrix(cca.org)

71 points by thunderbong 2 years ago | 24 comments

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.

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

82 points by _Microft 2 years ago | 13 comments

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

111 points by zdw 3 years ago | 55 comments

JIT bitmap text rendering for microcontrollers(linebender.org)

102 points by dmit 5 days ago | 22 comments

Raph Levien's Linebender blog post describing a JIT technique for fast proportional bitmap text rendering on the RP2350 microcontroller in his vic-2350 project.

Intel to Receive $8.5B in Grants to Build Chip Plants(nytimes.com)

325 points by ece20 2 years ago | 578 comments

New York Times article reporting Intel will receive $8.5 billion in CHIPS Act grants to build semiconductor plants, announced by President Biden in Arizona.

Artificial intelligence is losing hype(economist.com)

453 points by bx376 2 years ago | 663 comments

An Economist Free exchange column arguing that artificial intelligence is losing hype and asking whether that signals the technology will eventually succeed.

I started programming when I was 7. I'm 50 now and the thing I loved has changed(jamesdrandall.com)

705 points by jamesrandall 9 months ago | 556 comments

Personal essay by a 50-year-old developer who began coding BASIC in 1983, reflecting on how the craft of programming has changed, including with AI.

AI is dramatically accelerating AI research(planned-obsolescence.org)

333 points by yurivish 7 days ago | 300 comments

Ajeya Cotra's Substack post arguing a METR report shows AI is already roughly doubling AI capabilities progress at Anthropic, implying rapid compounding toward superintelligence.

A new PNG spec(programmax.net)

610 points by bluedel 1 year ago | 553 comments

A blog post announcing the release of a new PNG specification after two decades of stalled progress and explaining why it matters.

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.