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The Paradox of x86
When a moat becomes a prison with huge economic and geopolitical consequences.
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AI Accelerators: The Cambrian Explosion
A sample of the designs that followed Google's first Tensor Processing Unit.
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Nvidia's Superman
Is Jensen Huang the Seymour Cray or the Steve Jobs of his era?
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March 2024

Google's First Tensor Processing Unit : Architecture
Looking in more detail at Google's first Tensor Processing Unit
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Demystifying GPU Compute Software
Comparing CUDA with its competitors
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Motorola's 6809 : The Best 8-Bit?
Part 3 of the story of the Motorola 6800
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Morris Chang, TSMC and Japan
Opening a new fab in Kumamoto and a talk at MIT
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February 2024

Google's First Tensor Processing Unit : Origins
Why and how did Google build the first AI accelerator deployed at scale?
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John C. Dvorak on Intel's First Neural Network Chip
"it is something of a breakthrough, having achieved the theoretical intelligence level of a cockroach"
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More '8-Bit Era' Microprocessors
Eight chips that didn't make the cut last time.
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100 Years of 'IBM'
The Computing-Tabulating-Recording Company gets a rebrand.
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Introducing Chiplets
The Chip Letter but smaller, cuter and more fun!
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