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Demystifying GPU Compute Architectures
Getting 'low level' with Nvidia and AMD GPUs
Feb 4, 2024 • 
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Google's First Tensor Processing Unit : Architecture
Looking in more detail at Google's first Tensor Processing Unit
Mar 24, 2024 • 
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Qualcomm RISCs, Arm Pulls: The Legal Battle for the Future of Client Computing
What happens when a gladiator takes on the “Warren Buffett of Japan”?
Nov 16, 2024 • 
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Demystifying NPUs: Questions & Answers
Let's answer some 'what', 'why' and 'hows' for the Neural Processing Unit.
Jun 10, 2024 • 
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Intel’s Immiseration
The long, seemingly inevitable decline of an icon
Aug 7, 2024 • 
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A History of C Compilers - Part 1: Performance, Portability and Freedom
Let's talk compilers with part one of a whistle stop tour of their history
May 5, 2024 • 
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Learning Assembly for Fun, Performance and Profit
Why take an interest in assembly language and which to learn?
Feb 14 • 
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The Nvidia Way
Tae Kim's terrific new book on the story of Nvidia and Jensen Huang
Dec 23, 2024 • 
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Moore on Moore
We look at the past, present and uncertain future of Moore's Law, with some help from Gordon Moore himself
Jan 21, 2024 • 
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Demystifying GPU Compute Software
Comparing CUDA with its competitors
Mar 10, 2024 • 
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Tiny Computers from Texas
The Early History of the Microcontroller - Part 1
Jan 7, 2024 • 
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The Paradox of x86
When a moat becomes a prison with huge economic and geopolitical consequences.
Apr 13, 2024 • 
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