Top Hackernews posts from thechipletter.substack.com

1. Google's First Tensor Processing Unit: Architecture (thechipletter.substack.com)
   354 points by c_joly over 2 years | 187 comments
2. Ericsson to WhatsApp: The Story of Erlang (thechipletter.substack.com)
   270 points by tim_sw about 3 years | 79 comments
3. Satya Nadella uses an IBM AS/400 in 1993 (thechipletter.substack.com)
   254 points by klelatti over 2 years | 147 comments
4. Demystifying GPU compute architectures (thechipletter.substack.com)
   210 points by rbanffy over 2 years | 59 comments
5. A History of C Compilers – Part 1: Performance, Portability and Freedom (thechipletter.substack.com)
   180 points by gulced over 2 years | 109 comments
6. Motorola's pioneering 8-bit 6800: Origins and architecture (thechipletter.substack.com)
   139 points by klelatti almost 3 years | 86 comments
7. Spur – RISC IV: The Lisp Multiprocessor Workstation (thechipletter.substack.com)
   135 points by oumua_don17 about 2 years | 91 comments
8. iAPX432: Gordon Moore, Risk and Intel’s Super-CISC Failure (thechipletter.substack.com)
   133 points by klelatti over 3 years | 102 comments
9. The mainframe in your pocket running minicomputer software (thechipletter.substack.com)
   126 points by klelatti almost 4 years | 27 comments
10. Leaving Arizona – the Story of the Motorola 6800 part 2 and creation of the 6502 (thechipletter.substack.com)
    121 points by zdw over 2 years | 33 comments
11. Compiler Explorer (thechipletter.substack.com)
    116 points by rbanffy over 2 years | 17 comments
12. The 8-bit era: Eight processor designs (thechipletter.substack.com)
    115 points by rbanffy almost 3 years | 82 comments
13. RISC on a Chip: David Patterson and Berkeley RISC-I (thechipletter.substack.com)
    101 points by lproven over 3 years | 15 comments
14. Cash, Canadians and CPUs: Intel's 'Lost' Early Microprocessor (thechipletter.substack.com)
    100 points by klelatti almost 4 years | 46 comments
15. Demystifying NPUs: Questions and Answers (thechipletter.substack.com)
    99 points by rbanffy over 2 years | 33 comments
16. Tiny Computers from Texas: The Early History of the Microcontroller (thechipletter.substack.com)
    97 points by klelatti over 2 years | 7 comments
17. Captain Zilog Crushed: The Story of the Z8000 (thechipletter.substack.com)
    97 points by thedday about 3 years | 66 comments
18. John C. Dvorak on Intel's First Neural Network Chip in 1990 (thechipletter.substack.com)
    95 points by klelatti over 2 years | 73 comments
19. Moore on Moore – The past, present and uncertain future of Moore's Law (thechipletter.substack.com)
    88 points by klelatti over 2 years | 49 comments
20. RISC-V Origins and Architecture, Part 1 (thechipletter.substack.com)
    85 points by ChuckMcM about 3 years | 29 comments
21. The First RISC: John Cocke and the IBM 801 (thechipletter.substack.com)
    80 points by klelatti almost 4 years | 87 comments
22. Projects Innovating Around RISC-V (thechipletter.substack.com)
    77 points by cpeterso almost 3 years | 32 comments
23. 60-Bit Computing (2022) (thechipletter.substack.com)
    77 points by klelatti over 2 years | 73 comments
24. Xerox PARC Special (thechipletter.substack.com)
    75 points by giuliomagnifico about 3 years | 16 comments
25. The RISC Wars Part 1: The Cambrian Explosion (thechipletter.substack.com)
    75 points by tim_sw over 3 years | 46 comments
26. The First 'Apple Silicon' – The Aquarius Processor Project (thechipletter.substack.com)
    66 points by tim_sw over 3 years | 17 comments
27. More on x86 – The Chip Letter (thechipletter.substack.com)
    65 points by rbanffy over 2 years | 43 comments
28. Intel vs. NEC: The Case of the V20's Microcode (thechipletter.substack.com)
    64 points by klelatti almost 3 years | 19 comments
29. Inmos and the Transputer – Parallel Ventures (thechipletter.substack.com)
    56 points by klelatti about 3 years | 36 comments
30. RISC-V: The Last ISA? (thechipletter.substack.com)
    56 points by klelatti almost 4 years | 98 comments
31. The Invention of the Integrated Circuit: Jean Hoerni's Patent Notebook (thechipletter.substack.com)
    56 points by kryster over 2 years | 2 comments