How To Make A CPU - A Simple Picture Based Explanation
- Robert Elder tl;dr: "The purpose of this article is to explain how to make a CPU out of rocks and sand as fast as possible without using too many words. As the world of proprietary hardware and software crushes in around us, we risk losing the ability to make things for ourselves as individuals."featured in #268
Always-on Processor Magic: How Find My works While iPhone Is Powered Off
tl;dr: A look into Apple's Always-on Processor (AOP). "The AOP has a special role. It connects to almost every other chip in the iPhone. For some chips, it only does basic tasks like power management, and for other chips, it acts as a transparent proxy that wakes up iOS when needed."featured in #261
1980: Steve Jobs On Hardware Software Convergence
- Steve Cheney tl;dr: "More and more, software is getting integrated into the hardware… Yesterday’s software is today’s hardware. Those two things are merging. And the line between hardware and software is going to get finer and finer and finer."featured in #239
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Dissecting The Apple M1 GPU, Part I
- Alyssa Rosenzweig tl;dr: "A few weeks ago, I purchased a Mac Mini with an M1 GPU as a development target to study the instruction set and command stream, to understand the GPU’s architecture at a level not previously publicly understood."featured in #221