Archive - The Chip Letter

"There's a new law going on"

Jun 18 •

The End of Simplification: Intel Abandons X86S

Backwards compatibility wins again

Jun 5 •

May 2025

Patrick McGee's important new book

May 27 •

Personal Computer Origins: The Datapoint 2200

The innovative desktop terminal that paved the way for the first personal computers

May 19 •

Markdown and Substack - A Bear Workflow

How to keep your writing in Markdown and easily publish to Substack.

May 15 •

The birth, rise and eclipse of the personal computer

A look back at the 'personal computer' at fifty.

May 3 •

April 2025

David Patterson on Software Engineering Daily

RISC-V, AI and more ...

Apr 26 •

Risk and reward in updating legacy systems

Apr 13 •

The history and motivation for the 'virtual instruction set' that underpins the CUDA ecosystem

Apr 8 •

The Soul of an Old Machine

How to win a Pulitzer Prize writing about computers

Apr 1 •

March 2025

Happy 18th Birthday CUDA!

CUDA reaches maturity and AlexNet's source code is released

Mar 22 •

A pioneering computer from Manchester

Mar 11 •

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