Tag: cpu
Decoding the NEC V20 Microcode
Enviado por FabioAlthough I had added support for the NEC V20 in MartyPC, the V20 core was not cycle-accurate in terms of the V20's actual timings. It was an 8088 in a V20's clothing - a copy-paste of my 8088 core... 09/09/26 | hace 13 días | martypc.blogspot.com
More emulation goodness, an Intel Itanium (IA-64) emulator that boots Windows! - Raymii.org
Enviado por FabioThe emulation space is going crazy, after my previous post on Windows booting on DEC Alpha es40 emulator, there is now another huge breakthrough in the emulation of other non-x86 CPU emulation. Yufeng... 21/07/26 | hace 64 días | raymii.org
Sandia National Labs SA3000 8085 CPU | The CPU Shack Museum
Enviado por FabioBack in the late 1970’s and early 1980’s Sandia National Laboratory (in Albuquerque NM USA) began building the capacity to design, fab, and test IC’s at scale (packaging was handled by Fairchild... 04/06/26 | hace 110 días | www.cpushack.com
El folleto técnico del Cray-1: la supercomputadora de 1977 que alucinaba a los informáticos
Enviado por Fabio14 páginas que resumen a un coloso de 160 MFLOPS con 8 MB, 115 kW y regrigeración de freón líquido, que además servía de sofá y no fallaba. 14/01/26 | hace 252 días | www.microsiervos.com
Transmeta: A CPU Revolution That Never Was
Enviado por FabioTransmeta was set to revolutionise the CPU market, but the market changed alot while they tried to build their revolution. Despite Transmeta no-longer being a CPU manufacture, they did change at least... 24/09/25 | hace 363 días | www.youtube.com
Fading Audio is ROUGH on CPUs
Enviado por FabioFading out audio is one of the most CPU-intensive tasks you can possibly do! ... 13/08/25 | hace 406 días | www.youtube.com
Happy Birthday 6502
Enviado por FabioThe MOS Technology 6502 is a microprocessor which casts a long shadow over the world of computing. Many of you will know it as the beating heart of so many famous 8-bit machines from the likes of C… 04/08/25 | hace 415 días | hackaday.com
I want a good parallel computer
Enviado por FabioThe 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... 01/07/25 | hace 449 días | raphlinus.github.io
Unknown and Unobtainable – Mystery Chips | The CPU Shack Museum
Enviado por FabioThere are always interesting surprises when collecting CPUs, and anything really. There are those chips that are unicorns, or white whales, spoke of, maybe even documented but never (or almost never)... 20/06/25 | hace 460 días | www.cpushack.com
Bell Labs’ Bellmac-32 paved the way for today’s smartphone chips
Enviado por FabioIn the late 1970s, a time when 8-bit processors were state of the art and CMOS was the underdog of semiconductor technology, engineers at AT&T’s Bell Labs took a bold leap into the future. They made... 10/06/25 | hace 470 días | spectrum.ieee.org
Raspberry lanza el Compute Module 5
Enviado por FabioCasi sin llamarle la atención a nadie apareció el Compute Module 5 de Raspberry Pi y, para quienes no saben de qué se trata, es un lanzamiento genial para muchos proyectos. Los "CM" son lo mismo... 29/11/24 | hace 663 días | www.tecnogeek.com
Qualcomm’s Oryon Core: A Long Time in the Making
Enviado por FabioIn 2019, a startup called Nuvia came out of stealth mode. Nuvia was notable because its leadership included several notable chip architects, including one who used to work for Apple. Apple chips li… 12/07/24 | hace 803 días | chipsandcheese.com