The Chip Letter

TPU Mania

Babbage · The Chip Letter ·Dec 13, 2025 · 11 min read

Qualcomm's Hexagon AI Accelerators

Babbage · The Chip Letter ·Nov 6, 2025 · 14 min read

Nexperia's Long History, Tangled Present and Uncertain Future

Babbage · The Chip Letter ·Oct 18, 2025 · 12 min read

Obsolescence

Babbage · The Chip Letter ·Oct 14, 2025 · 3 min read

Arm's Chief Architect on the History of the Arm Architecture

Babbage · The Chip Letter ·Sep 20, 2025 · 3 min read

The PC was never a true 'IBMer'

Babbage · The Chip Letter ·Sep 13, 2025 · 9 min read

How Big was IBM?

Babbage · The Chip Letter ·Sep 8, 2025 · 7 min read

Intel in Oz

Babbage · The Chip Letter ·Aug 27, 2025 · 8 min read

Source Control

Babbage · The Chip Letter ·Aug 6, 2025 · 11 min read

Turing Award Histories

Babbage · The Chip Letter ·Jul 26, 2025 · 7 min read

MIPS

Babbage · The Chip Letter ·Jul 19, 2025 · 9 min read

Huang's Law

Babbage · The Chip Letter ·Jun 18, 2025 · 15 min read

The End of Simplification: Intel Abandons X86S

Babbage · The Chip Letter ·Jun 4, 2025 · 1 min read

Apple In China

Babbage · The Chip Letter ·May 26, 2025 · 12 min read

Personal Computer Origins: The Datapoint 2200

Babbage · The Chip Letter ·May 19, 2025 · 20 min read

Markdown and Substack - A Bear Workflow

Babbage · The Chip Letter ·May 15, 2025 · 2 min read

The birth, rise and eclipse of the personal computer

Babbage · The Chip Letter ·May 3, 2025 · 13 min read

David Patterson on Software Engineering Daily

Babbage · The Chip Letter ·Apr 26, 2025 · 2 min read

COBOLers

Babbage · The Chip Letter ·Apr 13, 2025 · 7 min read

Nvidia's PTX

Babbage · The Chip Letter ·Apr 8, 2025 · 13 min read

The Soul of an Old Machine

Babbage · The Chip Letter ·Mar 31, 2025 · 14 min read