Qualcomm’s RISC Pays Off; Arm’s Dogs Don’t Bark

The Engine

The Nvidia Way

Innovation, Customers and Scale: A Positive Vision for Intel's (Foundry) Future

Qualcomm RISCs, Arm Pulls: The Legal Battle for the Future of Client Computing

Wafer Scale - Trilogy Systems: Part 2

Dylan and Jon on the Dwarkesh Podcast

Wafer Scale and Trilogy Systems: Part 1: Cerebras isn't the first to try to use 'wafer-scale' to break into a lucrative market.

Intel's Transformation 2.0: Gelsinger, Grove and communicating change

Tock, Tock, Tock, Zen: Clean sheet vs evolutionary processor designs

How Intel Missed the iPhone: XScale Era: Challenging the conventional narrative on Intel's smartphone miss

Pico Pi RISC-V: Who better to make RISC-V widely available than Raspberry Pi?

Intel’s Immiseration: The long, seemingly inevitable decline of an icon

Computer Architecture: Foundational Reading: Four alternative texts on computer architecture

Intel Everywhere - The 8051 in Detail: The story of the Intel 8051 Series - Part 2

Intel Everywhere: The Story of the Intel 8051 Series - Part 1

Updating 'About the Chip Letter': And sharing more about future posts

New to The Chip Letter? Start Here!: Welcome!

What killed the 68000?: And could it have survived?

SPUR - RISC IV: The LISP Multiprocessor Workstation: The hugely ambitious 'Symbolic Processing Using RISC' project from UC Berkeley

Demystifying NPUs: Questions & Answers: Let's answer some 'what', 'why' and 'hows' for the Neural Processing Unit.

The Alchemy of Scale Transformation: Scale, economics and innovation.

Motorola's 68000 Series: Its Rise in Ten Computers: A timeline of the 68000, its successors and the computers they powered.

SOAR-ing with Smalltalk: Berkeley RISC-III: 'Smalltalk On A RISC' and three mysteries!

Compiler Explorer: Or the 'Matt Godbolt shows us some compiler magic' edition!