Sitemap - 2023 - The Chip Letter
8-Bit : Learning from the Sources
Motorola's Pioneering 8-bit 6800 : Origins and Architecture
Why Are There No Minicomputers Any More?
The Virtues Of The 8-Bit Era : Eight Iconic Processor Designs
ILLIAC IV Supercomputer : DARPA, SIMD, Fairchild and Stanley Kubrick's '2001'
RISC-V : Will SiFive be a Winner?
Intel vs NEC : The Case of the V20's Microcode
Apple's Mac Transitions : 68k to PowerPC to Intel to Apple Silicon
No one ever got fired for buying ... Nvidia
Ten Books On The History of Semiconductors
GPU Compute : Costs, Trends, Huang's Law and FLOPS in the Brain
Deep Thought, Deep Learning and the World's Total Computing Resources
Computer Architecture : Four Great Learning Resources
Neural Networks and the Origins of Modern Computing
Happy 65th Birthday, Integrated Circuit
Seven Projects Innovating Around RISC-V
Inmos and the Transputer - Part 2 : Politics and Processors
Inmos and the Transputer : Instruction Set and Architecture
Inmos and the Transputer - Part 1 : Parallel Ventures
RISC-V : Poll Results And A New Emulator
RISC-V - Part 2 : Ambitious Aims
Will RISC-V become the standard for Instruction Set Architectures?
RISC-V - Part 1 : Origins and Architecture
Nvidia and the Longevity of Technology Moats
Herman Goldstine and the IAS Machine: Unveiling the Modern Computer
Chip Letter Links No. 21 : Xerox PARC Special
The Everything Blueprint - Arm Everywhere
Ericsson to Whatsapp : The Story of Erlang - Supplemental
Ericsson to WhatsApp : The Story of Erlang
Nvidia's Embarrassingly Parallel Success
AT&T’s CRISP Hobbits - Supplemental
Be Grateful, Be Geeky, Be Generous : Jean-Louis Gassée's Memoirs
Chip Letter Links No. 18: NexGen, Nvidia, Die Topology, FastGPT in Fortran and more
The First 'Apple Silicon' : The Aquarius Processor Project
The First 'Apple Silicon' : The Aquarius Processor Project - Supplemental
The RISC Wars Part 2 : The Age of Alliances
The RISC Wars Part 1 : The Cambrian Explosion
The RISC Wars Part 1 : The Cambrian Explosion - Supplemental
RISC on a Chip: David Patterson and Berkeley RISC-I
Apple's "Perpetual, Royalty-Free License" and Other Arm Myths
The Unnecessary Obscurity of Assembly Language
iAPX432 : Gordon Moore, Risk and Intel’s Super-CISC failure
Chip Letter Links No. 15 : Gordon Moore, Itanium, Inventing Ethernet, MIPS, RISC-V and more
The Arm Story Part 3 : Creating A Global Standard
The Arm Story Part 3 : Creating a Global Standard - Supplemental
Trillion Dollar Stopgap: The Intel 8086
Chip Letter Links No 14: Raspberry Pi Pico
The Arm Story Part 2 : Archimedes to Advanced RISC Machines
The Arm Story Part 2 : Archimedes to Advanced RISC Machines - Supplemental
Once Again Through Eratosthenes Sieve : 40 Years of Progress
The Arm Story Part 1 : From Acorns
The Arm Story Part 1 : From Acorns - Supplemental
Chip Letter Links No. 13: Andy Grove and the 80386
The Founding of ASML Part 2: Oil to Electric
The Founding of ASML Part 2: Oil to Electric - Supplemental
Chip Letter Links No.12: Nintendo Strategy, ASML Culture, Dekatron, Blinkenlights, RISC-V Summit