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Showing posts with label intel. Show all posts

Inside the die of Intel's 8087 coprocessor chip, root of modern floating point

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Looking inside the Intel 8087, an early floating point chip, I noticed an interesting feature on the die: the substrate bias generation circ...
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Inside Intel's first product: the 3101 RAM chip held just 64 bits

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Intel's first product was not a processor, but a memory chip: the 3101 1 RAM chip, released in April 1969. This chip held just 64 bits ...
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Analyzing the vintage 8008 processor from die photos: its unusual counters

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The revolutionary Intel 8008 microprocessor is 45 years old today (March 13, 2017), so I figured it's time for a blog post on reverse-en...
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Reverse-engineering the surprisingly advanced ALU of the 8008 microprocessor

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A computer's arithmetic-logic unit (ALU) is the heart of the processor, performing arithmetic and logic operations on data. If you'v...
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