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In about 10 years, Apple has multiplied by 19 the number of transistors in its mobile processors. It corresponds roughly to a steady rate of improvement of 34% per year on the number of transistors, or a doubling every 2.5 years. In real dollars, an iPhone has roughly a constant price: the price tag of … Continue…
FPGA Development Boards for Under $150 Posted today In the dynamic world of FPGA design, breaking the bank shouldn't be a prerequisite to diving into hands-on experimentation and learning. Fortunately, a plethora of FPGA development boards have emerged that are not only feature-rich, but also surprisingly affordab
It's an odd-numbered year, so there is a new major Debian release, and we are now releasing the corresponding version of Raspberry Pi OS.
How to stabilize digital supply voltages - and why most of the online advice on this topic is suspect.
My Initial experience with this brand new modular laptop
The long term LoRaWAN® distance world record of 832 km / 517 mi has been broken. The new record now stands at 1336 km / 830 miles. After 3 years, the new world
Almost every few weeks, a new and exciting retro hardware project is announced. These are truly …
Everything seems to be USB-C powered nowadays - I need more power on my workbench!
How Qualcomm mixes licensing and its product business to produce industry-beating profit margins, showcasing the importance of a patent licensing business
The Logic Lab provides a selection of 12 logic gates that you can interconnect with patch cables to make a variety of different logic circuits, for experimenting with and learning about logic:
13 vulnerabilities in GarminOS and the MonkeyC VM, 9 with CVEs, that let Connect IQ apps escape the VM and bypass permissions on 100+ Garmin watches.
if you're lucky, you haven't. you're still using a microwave from the 1990's or something like that, and it still works just fine. after all, how can a microwave be made any better? you put stuff in, and the water in the stuff heats up. there really isn't much innovation to be done that wasn't already done half a…
We’re open-sourcing Persimmon-8B, the most powerful fully permissively-licensed language model with <10 billion parameters.
Dmitry.GR: Driving a poorly-designed display and touch board using no CPU at all
How many transistors are in Intel's 8086 processor? This seems like a straightforward question, but it doesn't have a straightforward answ...
4am doesn’t suffer fools, or repetition. Or mysteries. Focused out of nowhere on tinkering with an Apple II a number of years back, they re-learned the whole of how the unique floppy disk sys…
The launch represents the first in-situ test of the technology to harvest solar energy in space and transmit it to Earth.
It’s still good to use, I swear
The history of making is now ready for the future
Scott Mabin's blog
This year I got a very special gift for Christmas: a broken DualShock 4. :smile:You may say it’s a relatively poor gift, but the person who gave me this know...
With all that Dec Alpha talk , and how hard it is to get hardware, and how seemingly exclusionary it is, I thought I would try to touch on a more available 64bit ‘risc’ platform, for the masses!
Apple goes behind the scenes of Scary Fast, a special event unveiling the all-new MacBook Pro family and iMac.
Espressif is expanding its current portfolio to address the high-performance computation needs of IO-Rich, HMI, and AIoT applications.
Right to repair has no cannier, more dedicated adversary than Apple, a company whose most innovative work is dreaming up new ways to sneakily sabotage electronics repair while claiming to be a caring environmental steward, a lie that covers up the mountains of e-waste that Apple dooms our descendants to wade through.
Join me as I transition from soft to hardware with the SidecarTridge Multi-device. Insights and challenges of creating a ROM cartridge emulator for Atari ST
While programmers today take multiplication for granted, most microprocessors in the 1970s could only add and subtract — multiplication r...
The new TPU v5p is a core element of AI Hypercomputer, which is tuned, managed, and orchestrated specifically for gen AI training and serving.
