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by klelatti 4y ago
Indeed, sold c2006 I think just before the iPhone launched!
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by klelatti 4y ago
Yes I think you're right on StrongARM which was the most powerful ARM CPU for a long time. Eventually made its way to Intel I think. I think everyone eventually had their own RISC - IBM, HP, AMD, Intel (i960) plus MIPs and SPARC of co
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by klelatti 4y ago
Yes my first reaction was that the VAX would have been a much better architecture but Intel's manufacturing lead meant that it could churn out 286s (and of course 386s in 1985) at much lower cost. Interesting to compare them both with
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by klelatti 4y ago
Interesting that it had roughly the same number of transistors as the 286 but appeared three years later but on a larger node size (so bigger die).
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Substack, Friction and the Paradox of Choice(thechipletter.substack.com)
2 points by klelatti 4y ago|0 comments
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by klelatti 4y ago
Best of luck!
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by klelatti 4y ago
Why shouldn't it be sustainable? Seems like the sort of service where a freemium AGPL open source model might work quite well.
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by klelatti 4y ago
Good one! Goddess of the sky would fit in very well with Saturn.
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by klelatti 4y ago
I like how they went from the name of a small edible object (the 'nut') for the previous architecture to a large inedible planet for this generation.
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by klelatti 4y ago
I think you're missing out the fact that it's also very, very funny indeed.
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by klelatti 4y ago
Genuine question. Why would Arm do this? Armv8 is a modern ISA built built based on decades of experience with huge software support. Adding a comparable but different ISA alongside it makes no sense. More likely is that they could loosen u
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by klelatti 4y ago
By all accounts Nuvia got substantial help (and probably quite a bit of IP) from Arm and I imagine that would be the case for any architectural licensee - they weren't just get sent a copy of the ISA spec and left to it! So 'nothi
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by klelatti 4y ago
Nuvia chose Arm when RISC-V was available. "Nothing useful in return" isn't correct. There is clearly a lot of Arm IP on offer to licensees - eg see Amazon and Graviton. I get the enthusiasm for RISC-V and its great in many w
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by klelatti 4y ago
Because Qualcomm - of all companies - would never push the envelope of what their licenses allow them to do? This is a firm that got endorsements from 22 other companies for their acquisition of Nuvia but apparently somehow forgot to tell t
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by klelatti 4y ago
IIRC flicker free depends on NMI from the ULA eg see > The ULA contains a 6.5 MHz crystal oscillator and a frequency divider which generates horizontal sync pulses at the video output and NMI pulses on the NMI output. From https:/&
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Faraday and Babbage: Semiconductors and Computing in 1833(thechipletter.substack.com)
28 points by klelatti 4y ago|8 comments
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by klelatti 4y ago
I wonder if anyone at Deep Mind can share why they stopped working on this. Technical issues or a business led decision?
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by klelatti 4y ago
Very good point! Didn't the ZX81 add a few things though? It had a CPU based video driver driven by interrupts IIRC so the screen didn't flash all the time when it was working - very, very slow though.
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Intel's First Fab(thechipletter.substack.com)
11 points by klelatti 4y ago|0 comments
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SiFive Powers Google TPU, NASA, Tenstorrent and More(semianalysis.substack.com)
4 points by klelatti 4y ago|0 comments
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by klelatti 4y ago
I asked you to cite an instance but you declined. An example would be a reasonable basis for discussion. Accusing me of bias doesn't more the debate forward.
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by klelatti 4y ago
I have and I see nothing of the sort.
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by klelatti 4y ago
Apple has never been a 'pure' hardware builder. It's always been a systems integrator: hardware, software on your device, closely integrating open source in some cases (Unix / Webkit) then moving to link other devices (i
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by klelatti 4y ago
Care to cite where anyone from ‘that community’ are forcing themselves into WP? I can’t see any instances at all. As for the religion point I completely fail to see how the text could lead anyone to the sort of behaviour you are implying he
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by klelatti 4y ago
I can’t see anyone forcing SQLite into WP just an informed discussion of the pros and cons. On the other hand you seem to be completely against the idea on principle despite any advantages.
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AMD's Early Math Chips(thechipletter.substack.com)
2 points by klelatti 4y ago|0 comments
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by klelatti 4y ago
I sometimes think we have an 'embarrassment of riches' today - more computing power than we know what to do with!
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Bytecode and the Busicom Calculator(thechipletter.substack.com)
1 points by klelatti 4y ago|0 comments
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by klelatti 4y ago
The watch has similar specs to the first MacBook Pro from 2006!
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by klelatti 4y ago
Interesting but the repo homepage itself is probably a more helpful starting point. https://github.com/corsix/amx

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