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by klelatti 3y ago
And huge thanks to dang for all his work over the year!
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by klelatti 3y ago
Not 100% sure I understand your question but if you're asking about 4040 vs 6502 as contenders for Apple II in 1977 - the 4040 was a much more limited design than the 6502 and would not have been viable as the Apple's CPU.
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by klelatti 3y ago
Thanks so much! There is so much to cover in Part 2 so it might take a little while. Completely agree that the 6800 needs more love. It was a really important design. PS I'd not seen Mensch's comment that Peddle's intention w
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by klelatti 3y ago
Thanks for sharing this - it's a great interview. I do think there is a subtlety about the 'wasn't intended to compete with the 6800' line though. Chuck Peddle recognised the market for a much cheaper version of the 6800
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Motorola's pioneering 8-bit 6800: Origins and architecture(thechipletter.substack.com)
139 points by klelatti 3y ago|86 comments
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by klelatti 3y ago
Looks like it. 8-bit 6502 at 2 MHz.
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ASML Dilemma: High-NA EUV Is Worse vs. Low-NA EUV Multi-Patterning(semianalysis.com)
1 points by klelatti 3y ago|1 comments
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by klelatti 3y ago
Cortex A76 hardware was first available in 2018. Just because A76 happened to appear on an SBC 18 months or six months ago using this as a milestone doesn’t give a realistic impression of the relative timelines of the two architectures.
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AMD MI300 performance – Faster than H100, but how much?(semianalysis.com)
116 points by klelatti 3y ago|85 comments
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by klelatti 3y ago
Hi, Author here. Apologies, I should have made it clear that this was intended to be a short list of microprocessors only, mostly to leave room for a follow up on microcontrollers like the 8051. Completely agree that the 8051 deserves a pla
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by klelatti 3y ago
ASML? Swiss?? Nee! Don’t disagree with your general point though. Also there is always the option of industrial espionage as we have seen. Leaving the politics aside, it will be interesting to see what technical solutions emerge if the ‘eas
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by klelatti 3y ago
Agreed and - perhaps apart from the integrated assembler - these were common features of 8-bit machines. I had a ponder on the attractions of the 8-bit era a few days ago ... https://thechipletter.substack.com/p/the-vir
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by klelatti 3y ago
I had a similar experience with Sainsbury’s Bank in the U.K. Called me out of the blue after a failed transaction, I refused to give them the info they wanted and so they locked my account. Unlocking needed me to send them physical info th
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by klelatti 3y ago
> Were you really expanding you home collection that much? An album and a half a month? There are lots of people who would buy dozens of CDs a month. I know many.
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by klelatti 3y ago
So you get a vast amount more choice for the same price? That doesn’t factor into your assessment of value at all?
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by klelatti 3y ago
> Revenue is broadly in line with what it's been: More precisely revenue has just caught up to the level it was 30 years ago
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by klelatti 3y ago
And the value being delivered to you is a huge amount more than you got with 1-2 CDs a month. But you’re not prepared to pay more for that value?
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by klelatti 3y ago
Piracy did well for a while in the CD era. There is no evidence that current prices represent a ceiling for what would work in 2023 before people would turn again to piracy.
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by klelatti 3y ago
This may be an unpopular opinion but streaming music prices have to rise for artists to get a fair deal. Current prices are an incredible bargain and only so because they don’t reflect the true value of the product. Anything else is just tr
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by klelatti 3y ago
Author here. Just wanted to share one point I've been pondering after writing the article. The legal action over the V20 started when NEC sued Intel, not the other way around. I wonder if Intel held off suing NEC first as they felt tha
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Intel vs. NEC: The Case of the V20's Microcode(thechipletter.substack.com)
64 points by klelatti 3y ago|19 comments
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by klelatti 3y ago
Why did you reply then? I've removed the snark but perhaps it's better to engage with the substance of a comment. Edit : You didn’t engage with the substance of the comment which was about RPi’s perspective but instead made an unr
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by klelatti 3y ago
My point was that it's not about price (which the current top comment says).
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by klelatti 3y ago
RPi is a member of the RISC-V foundation but I don't think that that is anything about saving money, it's about the extra flexibility that it would have given RPi, as they are doing quite a lot of their own silicon these days. Com
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by klelatti 3y ago
There has been quite a bit of debate [1] about who was first with a working electronic von Neumann (in the widest sense of the word) design, the modified ENIAC or Manchester Baby. I have to say that I'm a bit torn and can see both side
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by klelatti 3y ago
Hi Jacob, Apologies, for some reason my memory failed me and I didn't make the connection between your Medium post and the Substack update! Of course on the recommendations, delighted to. Added just now. Best of luck.
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by klelatti 3y ago
By complete coincidence, I also wrote a post about Mac transitions a few days ago - with perhaps a bit more emphasis on the architectures that almost made it into the Mac - which may be of interest. https://thechipletter.substack
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by klelatti 3y ago
> But this doesn't answer the question as to where firms go if they want to license a core rather than design in-house My original comment. Qualcomm won't be doing this. Or at least not for a fee that is in any way comparable t
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by klelatti 3y ago
That sounds like a very fair comparison. And to be clear I was referring to SiFive's credibility in the comment above and not yours!
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by klelatti 3y ago
It might be cheaper but licensing costs = 0 does not imply that, which is what your original statement said.

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