Ken Shirriff's blog

In 1993, Intel released the high-performance Pentium processor, the start of the long-running Pentium line. The Pentium had many improvement...

I was studying the silicon die of the Pentium processor and noticed some puzzling structures where signal lines were connected to the silico...

Forbes recently published the Forbes 400 List for 2024, listing the 400 richest people in the United States. This inspired me to make a his...

We recently received an attitude indicator for the F-4 fighter plane, an instrument that uses a rotating ball to show the aircraft's ori...

Ferroelectric memory (FRAM) is an interesting storage technique that stores bits in a special "ferroelectric" material. Ferroelect...