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   by klelatti 3y ago

   That's great - thanks for sharing!
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   by klelatti 3y ago

   That’s really interesting- thanks so much.
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   by klelatti 3y ago

   Hi everyone, author here. Just to note that this is just Part 1 of a multi-part series. I’d love to cover some of the real world applications of Transputers in Part 2 so please share if you think of interest.
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   Inmos and the Transputer – Parallel Ventures(thechipletter.substack.com)

   56 points by klelatti 3y ago|36 comments
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   by klelatti 3y ago

   Fair enough, but I don’t see how this supports her thinking the internet was a fad not worth investing in. Also it denies agency to those in power in the decades that followed. I mean did that decision bind the policymakers that followed wh
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   by klelatti 3y ago

   Ah, the Apple has a perpetual royalty free license meme. Almost certainly a myth. Very, very unlikely anyone would get a perpetual license that covers all future products just because they were a founding shareholder. I did some detective w
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   by klelatti 3y ago

   I think in many ways Arm is (or should be) a sort of large 'Mittelstand' [1] business. Long term focus, independence, customer focus etc are key to the success of this type of business. Trouble is, its success and its sector has g
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   by klelatti 3y ago

   > But the Nvidia + ARM combo made sense from a technical and strategic standpoint though. Made sense for Nvidia. Not for other Arm customers.
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   by klelatti 3y ago

   > the UK is by far the best country in the EU The UK is no longer in the EU. Quite a significant point!
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    by klelatti 3y ago

    No fan of Thatcher, but she left power before the world-wide-web even left CERN.
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    by klelatti 3y ago

    I sense a degree of disappointment, both in the article and in some of the comments here, that Arm hasn’t made more rapid progress in getting competitive server CPUs to market. It’s clearly not the instruction set architecture. I wonder if
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    by klelatti 3y ago

    Very interesting. Thanks!
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    by klelatti 3y ago

    Thanks! Do you know what you’d get for that couple of cents?
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    by klelatti 3y ago

    Out of curiosity what’s the cheapest microcontroller die you’ve come across? It would be interesting to know what you get at the lowest possible price point.
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    by klelatti 3y ago

    I believe the Z8001 and Z8002 are different designs (can't find a die shot of the Z8001 but Z8002 die only has 40 pads). Zilog could have gone down the 6507 style route, I guess, but the Z8002 would have been more expensive to produce.
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    by klelatti 3y ago

    I don't think the YKK video is there yet but Jon also provides transcripts for many of his videos on his Substack, which might me more to your taste. Here is the one for the history of Intel and AMD. https://www.asianometry.
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    by klelatti 3y ago

    Risk / reward though. What's the reward? Are the alternatives better than Nvidia? Doesn't seem so and the risks are significant. On the other hand if you can't get H100s then nothing to lose!
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    by klelatti 3y ago

    I really don't get this sort of take : the world's most valuable company and a startup backed with $100m+ shouldn't have to pay for the IP that they use? Will Esperanto be giving their IP away for free and letting other firms
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    by klelatti 3y ago

    Ah Ok. Agree with the amended version! FWIW I think it’s unlikely that being a founder has any impact on current terms - we’re now thirty years on and several new licenses on now. Being a huge high profile customer will have an impact so Ap
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    by klelatti 3y ago

    > We've already seen the excellent things Apple was able to do with ARM because they had the chip under their own control and were no longer beholden to ARM (or Motorola/IBM before that). Sorry? Apple remains an Arm licensee an
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    by klelatti 3y ago

    Makes sense - thanks!
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    by klelatti 3y ago

    I’m intrigued why you say this as my impression was that RISC-V coding was very straightforward.
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    by klelatti 3y ago

    > One person familiar with the plans said Arm was keen to bring in Nvidia in its bid as a way to position AI as central to the UK group’s growth plans. “AI will be every third word in the offering document,” the person said. “Nvidia is s
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    Nvidia in talks to be an anchor investor in Arm IPO(ft.com)

    9 points by klelatti 3y ago|5 comments
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    by klelatti 3y ago

    Thanks for the feedback. The article does say that that Facebook Messenger used Erlang. I've amended the comment on the jit compiler to say 'updated jit compiler' - my mistake.
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    by klelatti 3y ago

    Obligatory link to Bartosz Ciechanowski's (fantastic) post on Floating Point: https://ciechanow.ski/exposing-floating-point/ and his companion website https://float.exposed/0x44bf9400
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    AT&T's Crisp Hobbits(thechipletter.substack.com)

    1 points by klelatti 3y ago|0 comments
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    by klelatti 3y ago

    I think it's known as 'touching a nerve'!
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    by klelatti 3y ago

    Gosh. "We are a market-leading web intelligence collection platform, driven by the highest business ethics" I think that's a bit debatable!
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    by klelatti 3y ago

    My interpretation of 'take over' would be a majority of new server installs would be RISC-V based. There is a lead time for development, orders etc plus customers have to be content to switch to a new architecture. Amazon's A