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An Interview with Zen Chief Architect Mike Clark
Zen is one of the most important microarchitectures in the history of the x86 ecosystem.
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The latest blog posts to take off on Hacker News. 459 posts.
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A USB Interface to the "Mother of All Demos" Keyset
In the early 1960s, Douglas Engelbart started investigating how computers could augment human intelligence: "If, in your office, you as an ...
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I want a good parallel computer
The GPU in your computer is about 10 to 100 times more powerful than the CPU, depending on workload. For real-time graphics rendering and machine learning, you are enjoying that power, and doing those workloads on a CPU is not viable. Why aren’t we exploiting that power for other workloads? What prevents a GPU from…
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SoftBank Group to Acquire Ampere Computing for 6.5B
(TOKYO, Japan) and (Santa Clara, CA) – SoftBank Group Corp. (TSE: 9984, “SoftBank Group”) today announced that it will acquire Ampere® Computing, a leading independent silicon design company, in an all-cash transaction valued at $6.5 billion.
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Apple restricts Pebble from being awesome with iPhones
I’m surprised that you’re surprised
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Designing Electronics That Work
I’ve put together a 300+ page book with basically everything I learned the hard way over the last 10 years founding and working at several hardware startups. It started out as a self published work, but No Starch Press picked it up and it went through a very extensive editing process to make it even better.
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Two new PebbleOS watches
Including my dream smartwatch…
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Next generation LEDs are cheap and sustainable
Cost, technical performance and environmental impact – these are the three most important aspects for a new type of LED technology to have a broad commercial impact on society. This has been demonstrated by LiU-researchers in a new study.
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Amiga 600: From the Amiga No One Wanted to Retro Favorite
Maybe putting the designer of the IBM PCjr in charge of this wasn't the best idea
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Rust on the RP2350 (2024)
Today sees the announcement of the latest additions to Raspberry Pi's microcontroller line-up - the RP2350 family. I've had prototype units for a while, and you can run Rust code on it today. To my knowledge this is the first ever microcontroller launch with Rust support out-of-the-box.
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Apple's long-lost hidden recovery partition from 1994 has been found
In my last post about hard drives that go bad over time , I hinted at having rescued a lost piece of obscure Apple software history from an old 160 MB Conner hard drive that had its head stuck in the parked position. This post is going to be all about it. It’s the tale of a tad bit of an obsession, what felt like a…
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ESP32 WiFi Superstitions
The ESP32 is a popular microcontroller to use for do-it-yourself home automation, sensors, and a variety of other bits and bobs that you might want to take care of around the house. It’s the successor to the venerable ESP8266 which has found its way into many of our WiFi connected devices (seriously, open up a device…
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IO Devices and Latency
Take an interactive journey through the history of IO devices, and learn how IO device latency affects performance.
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Gemini Robotics
Introducing Gemini Robotics and Gemini Robotics-ER, AI models designed for robots to understand, act and react to the physical world.
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ESP32 Undocumented Bluetooth Commands: Clearing the Air
The developer resources in just one place!
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A technical history of Acorn Computers
These pages contain a fairly brief technical history of Acorn Computers. I have decided to focus on the technology because that is where my interests lie. Only very major non-technical events in Acorn's history have been included. If anyone finds any inaccuracies in the following pages please contact me using the link…
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Chasing RFI Waves – Part Seven
Here is part seven (the final part) of my non-fiction work about the National Radio Astronomy Observatory (NRAO) in Green Bank, West Virginia. You can also read parts one, two, three, four, five an…
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Apple Exclaves
Enhancing kernel isolation, one step at a time.
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AMD YOLO
AMD is sending us the two MI300X boxes we asked for. They are in the mail.
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Apple unveils new Mac Studio
Apple today announced the new Mac Studio, the most powerful Mac ever made, featuring M4 Max and the new M3 Ultra chip.
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Apple M3 Ultra
Apple today announced M3 Ultra, offering the most powerful CPU and GPU in a Mac.
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Apple introduces iPad Air with powerful M3 chip and new Magic Keyboard
Apple today introduced the new iPad Air, powered by the M3 chip and built for Apple Intelligence.
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Hacking the Xbox 360 Hypervisor Part 2: The Bad Update Exploit
Finding and exploiting bugs in the Xbox 360 hypervisor to create the "Bad Update" exploit.
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Gooey rubber that's slowly ruining old hard drives
As part of my work toward an upcoming post about a lost piece of very obscure Mac history that has finally been found, I’ve been playing around with old Apple-branded SCSI hard drives made by Quantum and Conner in the 1990s. What I’m about to describe is already common knowledge in the vintage computing world, but I…
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The Pentium contains a complicated circuit to multiply by three
This article is available in German at Heise Online . In 1993, Intel released the high-performance Pentium processor, the start of the long...
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Raspberry Pi Pico audio player
A weblog about technology including Arduino, Raspberry, Attiny, 3D printing, Electronics, tinkering and all kinds of diy projects.
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The most unhinged video wall, made out of Chromebooks
This is the story of our three year long journey to turn a fleet of laptops into what can only be described as the world's most unhinged video wall.
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Why it's so hard to build a jet engine
Civilization's toughest technical challenges are those that require extraordinary (and constantly improving) performance to be delivered at a low cost.
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AMD RDNA 4 – AMD Radeon RX 9000 Series Graphics Cards
New AMD Radeon RX 9000 Series graphics cards deliver enthusiast-level gaming experiences supercharged by AI.