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Chip Letter Links No. 18: NexGen, Nvidia, Die Topology, FastGPT in Fortran and more
Great links, images and reading for 4 June 2023
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May 2023
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 First 'Apple Silicon' : The Aquarius Processor Project - Supplemental
Apple’s first attempt to build its own processor design - using a Cray supercomputer.
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The Long History of REP MOVS
The complexity of copying data on x86 microprocessors
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Britain's headlong slide from silicon supremacy to silicon irrelevance
The forgotten story of how an obscure English engineer very nearly invented the integrated circuit. And what happened next.
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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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Chip Letter Links No. 17: Raptor Lake, Fake Chips, China's Chipmakers, Linux in the Browser, Stepper Prices, Cray and more
Great links, images and reading for 7 May 2023
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April 2023
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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The RISC Wars Part 1 : The Cambrian Explosion - Supplemental
Two great articles from the early days of RISC processors
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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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Chip Letter Links No. 16 : Gordon Moore's Notebooks, Nvidia on Acquired, Assembly Language, Jeff Hinton, RISC-V on Jupyter
Great links, images and reading for 16 April 2023
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Apple's "Perpetual, Royalty-Free License" and Other Arm Myths
Deconstructing three persistent Arm myths
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