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by klelatti 4y ago
2021 and 2020 were inflated by the pandemic. 1997 to 2019 is an increase of about 3.5x CPI over this period was about 80% but large % of NHS costs are salaries so would be expected to run ahead of CPI by at least 1%. Net of all this funding
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by klelatti 4y ago
There were lots and lots of blogs with similar opinions. It’s really the case that they played up their hosting of some controversial writers in order to build publicity - hence one of their founders appears on Joe Rogan etc. You can admire
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by klelatti 4y ago
Is anyone else surprised that Sinofsky, who must have made - at a minimum - tens of millions of dollars at MS, feels the need to charge at all - let alone $300 for a pdf - for his memoirs. It’s almost as though he doesn’t want people to rea
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by klelatti 4y ago
> Market effects of the x86 duopoly. Essentially this was because PC volumes supported Intels R&D and investment being greater than anyone else could afford. We’re no longer in 2000 though. Apple sold 240 million iPhones last year wh
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by klelatti 4y ago
Thanks - this was my calculation but with, I think, one generation older node density - hence the approx 2x factor difference.
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by klelatti 4y ago
I did a rough calculation a few days ago which roughly indicated that you could now get 300 complete 4004’s into the space occupied by a single 4004 transistor in 1971. (I may have got that wrong so happy to be corrected!)
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by klelatti 4y ago
Incredibly unlikely that we’d see a current Apple employee comment on their work on an upcoming project on here.
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by klelatti 4y ago
Exactly. Also blaming Intel's process problems on Itanium (discontinued 2011) is - well an interesting perspective!
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by klelatti 4y ago
Good point!
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by klelatti 4y ago
The risk that TSMC doesn't deliver on node improvements / deliver the relevant SoCs in the required numbers. And if you think that risk is small / nil I would point you to Intel's recent track record. And just to point o
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by klelatti 4y ago
Competitive but not the leader in logic. And don't forget that TSMC's advances have helped AMD to complete with Intel.
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by klelatti 4y ago
We probably have 3nm production on this timescale because of the long term relationship between Apple and TSMC and the $100bn + that Apple have spent with TSMC over that time period. No one else has done this. Apple pays the money and takes
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by klelatti 4y ago
Thanks!
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by klelatti 4y ago
This is really interesting. Any recommendations for further reading on EPIC and related technologies?
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by klelatti 4y ago
Thanks - I'll have a look.
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by klelatti 4y ago
Indeed and I suppose in fairness I don’t think 432 was ever intended as a PC cpu replacement whilst Itanium was designed to replace some x86 servers. As an aside I’m still astonished that 432 and Itanium got as far as they did with so much
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by klelatti 4y ago
x86 did appear in one context where legacy compatibility is likely to have been a much smaller (or non issue?) and where (eg power consumption) efficiencies would have been even more valuable - that’s on mobile running Android. The fact tha
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by klelatti 4y ago
> Intel tried launching a non-compatible CPU once, it was Itanium, it didn't go so well for them. More than once. iAPX432 if anything went worse.
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by klelatti 4y ago
You may well be right but if each of the individual components of that portfolio is worse than the competition then it will be an uphill struggle.
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by klelatti 4y ago
To be successful as a new entrant against powerful incumbent players you need to have some sort of competitive angle / advantage. Intel used to have a fabrication lead but chose not to make dGPUs whilst they had that and allowed Nvidia
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by klelatti 4y ago
Broadly agree but I thought Steven Bartlett was a lot more sympathetic interviewer to Tom vs Anne Boden. Not sure he 'clicked' with Anne to the same extent as Tom.
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by klelatti 4y ago
Thanks - I read Anne Borden’s book so will be interesting to hear Tom’s side too.
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by klelatti 4y ago
A bit ironic given Tom literally worked for Starling at the beginning. A bit odd that this doesn’t get a mention.
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by klelatti 4y ago
Part of this is the end of British national capitalism as per David Edgerton [1]. Tory party donors run hedge funds and property portfolios - and have little or no interest in long term industrial and commercial prosperity. Allowing Arm to
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by klelatti 4y ago
The Dragon Fable? Seems more like the case for moonshots rather than longevity explicitly.
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by klelatti 4y ago
You mean earlier this year it was $25 million? More seriously though, its small change for some of the donors listed here.
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by klelatti 4y ago
Really surprised that it's only $250K in total. I would have thought that there would be enough widespread interest in this to raise a lot more. Also some of this is a bit confusing 'the longevity prize' (singular) but multip
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by klelatti 4y ago
> CPU retargeting/recompilation from 6502 to R3000 Is this converting 6502 assembly to R3000 - not recompiling the source?
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by klelatti 4y ago
Interesting thanks. Is there a good reason for a relatively low fixed limit like this?
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by klelatti 4y ago
Shameless plug for my 6502 JS emulator / assembler in an Observable notebook, which takes the opcode, converts into pseudo assembly and then uses a switch statement on the mnemonic. I expected it would be horribly slow but maybe this s

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