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Neural Networks and the Origins of Modern Computing
How a 'wild-bearded, chain-smoking philosopher-poet' and a homeless, self-taught, boy from Detroit helped lay the foundations of both the modern…
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Happy 65th Birthday, Integrated Circuit
The chip definitely isn’t heading for retirement
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Inmos and the Transputer - Part 1 : Parallel Ventures
A transatlantic startup takes on Intel and tries to change the world
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RISC-V - Part 2 : Ambitious Aims
The backers of the RISC-V ISA have ambitious goals. Can they achieve them?
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RISC-V - Part 1 : Origins and Architecture
The revolutionary instruction set with roots in the first Berkeley RISC design
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iAPX432 : Gordon Moore, Risk and Intel’s Super-CISC failure
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Ericsson to WhatsApp : The Story of Erlang
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The First 'Apple Silicon' : The Aquarius Processor Project
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The Unnecessary Obscurity of Assembly Language
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Nvidia and the Longevity of Technology Moats
How does Nvidia's moat compare with successful, longstanding examples?
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Arm at Amazon
How Arm found a secure place in the biggest cloud
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Ericsson to WhatsApp : The Story of Erlang
How a programming language from Sweden powered one of the most valuable startup of the 2010s.
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Nvidia's Embarrassingly Parallel Success
It's not just AI. The company has a moat around 'embarrassingly parallel computing'.
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AT&T’s CRISP Hobbits
An unexpected journey for AT&T with it's own low power processor
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The First 'Apple Silicon' : The Aquarius Processor Project
Apple’s first attempt to build its own processor - using a Cray supercomputer.
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The RISC Wars Part 2 : The Age of Alliances
How could the RISC architectures of the 1990s compete with Intel and who would win?
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The RISC Wars Part 1 : The Cambrian Explosion
Not just a battle between RISC and CISC, but between proliferating RISC designs.
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RISC on a Chip: David Patterson and Berkeley RISC-I
David Patterson and team at UC Berkeley give RISC its name and make the first RISC microprocessor design.
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