The Chip Letter

TPU Mania

Is GPU vs TPU the CISC vs RISC contest of the modern era?

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November 2025

Qualcomm's Hexagon AI Accelerators

Can Qualcomm’s smartphone NPUs give it an edge in AI datacenters?

Nov 6 • Babbage

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October 2025

Nexperia's Long History, Tangled Present and Uncertain Future

Low tech can be geopolitically significant too

Oct 18 • Babbage

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Obsolescence

How long will your chips last for? A complicated multi-trillion dollar question.

Oct 15 • Babbage

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September 2025

Arm's Chief Architect on the History of the Arm Architecture

Richard Grisenthwaite talks decades of Arm history

Sep 20 • Babbage

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The PC was never a true 'IBMer'

Why IBM lost the PC market

Sep 13 • Babbage

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How Big was IBM?

Big Blue was big but how does it compare to today's tech giants?

Sep 9 • Babbage

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August 2025

Intel in Oz

What to make of Intel's whirlwind few weeks?

Aug 27 • Babbage

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Source Control

What to make of 'Source Code', the first volume of Bill Gates's memoirs?

Aug 6 • Babbage

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July 2025

Turing Award Histories

Curating Computer History Museum Oral Histories

Jul 26 • Babbage

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MIPS

The hyperactive history and legacy of the pioneering RISC architecture

Jul 19 • Babbage

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June 2025

Huang's Law

"There's a new law going on"

Jun 18 • Babbage

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