Hacker News: klelatti

New comment by klelatti in "Decoding the NEC V20 Microcode"

klelatti — Mon, 07 Sep 2026 19:30:42 +0000

Of course the V20’s microcode was the centre of an interesting legal dispute when NEC was sued by Intel.

https://thechipletter.substack.com/p/intel-vs-nec-the-case-o...

Floating Point – The Origin Story

klelatti — Sun, 06 Sep 2026 12:43:00 +0000

Article URL: https://thechipletter.substack.com/p/floating-point-the-origin-story

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49586015

Points: 3

# Comments: 0

Where will RISC-V be in 20 years? Poll results

klelatti — Wed, 02 Sep 2026 10:21:54 +0000

Article URL: https://thechipletter.substack.com/p/where-will-risc-v-be-in-20-years

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49534287

Points: 2

# Comments: 0

Xcena and Samsung's Near Memory Compute CXL Device

klelatti — Sun, 30 Aug 2026 07:35:41 +0000

Article URL: https://chipsandcheese.com/p/hot-chips-2026-xcena-and-samsungs

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49496543

Points: 59

# Comments: 7

New comment by klelatti in "Substack writers, you need a website"

klelatti — Tue, 28 Jul 2026 21:43:43 +0000

It's not a Substack site and virtually no Substack sites do this.

Floating Point: The Origin Story

klelatti — Thu, 04 Jun 2026 06:10:45 +0000

Article URL: https://thechipletter.substack.com/p/floating-point-the-origin-story

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48394663

Points: 2

# Comments: 0

The First Wafer Scale Company – Trilogy Systems Story Part 1 (2024)

klelatti — Thu, 14 May 2026 10:25:21 +0000

Article URL: https://thechipletter.substack.com/p/wafer-scale-trilogy-systems-part

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48133418

Points: 1

# Comments: 0

Arm, the UK and Apple

klelatti — Sun, 10 May 2026 08:23:55 +0000

Article URL: https://thechipletter.substack.com/p/arm-the-uk-and-apple

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48082029

Points: 9

# Comments: 0

Eight More '8-Bit Era' Microprocessors

klelatti — Fri, 08 May 2026 11:21:26 +0000

Article URL: https://thechipletter.substack.com/p/eight-more-8-bit-era-microprocessors

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48061556

Points: 83

# Comments: 32

Intel's Larabee Legacy

klelatti — Thu, 07 May 2026 14:10:04 +0000

Article URL: https://thechipletter.substack.com/p/larabees-long-shadow

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48049705

Points: 4

# Comments: 0

Intel Inside the Micro Revolution: 8008 Origins

klelatti — Sat, 02 May 2026 09:04:19 +0000

Article URL: https://thechipletter.substack.com/p/intel-inside-the-micro-revolution

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47984713

Points: 7

# Comments: 0

The Infinity Man: Demis Hassabis, Colleagues and Rivals

klelatti — Sat, 11 Apr 2026 09:05:11 +0000

Article URL: https://thechipletter.substack.com/p/the-infinity-man

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47728884

Points: 2

# Comments: 0

New comment by klelatti in "Eniac, the First General-Purpose Digital Computer, Turns 80"

klelatti — Thu, 19 Mar 2026 12:59:44 +0000

The paper came out of work on ENIAC and was adapted to follow the approach in the paper but Baby was built from outset to use that approach and its design much more closely matches the architecture that has been used by almost all digital computers since. I don’t dispute that ENIAC is important but it’s role is more nuanced than this article implies.

New comment by klelatti in "Eniac, the First General-Purpose Digital Computer, Turns 80"

klelatti — Thu, 19 Mar 2026 09:35:35 +0000

ENIAC was very important but this article overstates its significance and ignores other (non US) machines to the point of historical inaccuracy. No mention of Z3 or Manchester Baby for example, the latter based on the von Neumann paper for example, was arguably a more accurate pointer towards how computer architecture would develop.

New comment by klelatti in "Britain is ejecting hereditary nobles from Parliament after 700 years"

klelatti — Thu, 12 Mar 2026 01:52:32 +0000

You don’t think it’s a strength that they have the courage to seek views from as wide a range of perspectives as possible, including from outside the UK?

New comment by klelatti in "Never Bet Against x86"

klelatti — Fri, 06 Mar 2026 19:44:15 +0000

The point about the difficulties with Arm may be fair comment but the positioning and outlook of this post is decidedly weird. It seems to pretend that competitive desktop Arm processors already exist and ignores the existence of Arm ACPI.

On the conclusion - x86 didn't eventually win in smartphones.

And of course having a choice of processor designs from precisely two firms is absolutely something that we should continue to be happy with (and the post ignores RISC-V).

New comment by klelatti in "Dyson settles forced labour suit in landmark UK case"

klelatti — Fri, 27 Feb 2026 15:53:02 +0000

The brand is built on Dyson being a super genius inventor. He might be ingenious but he's applied to devices where it's not really needed and with unpalatable trade-offs.

In the UK at least his actions (offshoring, Brexit and tax) have probably significantly devalued the brand with a key part of his core demographic.

New comment by klelatti in "Dyson settles forced labour suit in landmark UK case"

klelatti — Fri, 27 Feb 2026 12:54:21 +0000

Ha! Very good and unlike say Windows it doesn't suck.

New comment by klelatti in "Dyson settles forced labour suit in landmark UK case"

klelatti — Fri, 27 Feb 2026 12:00:27 +0000

We have a pre-schooler and am happy to confirm that our Henry is a favourite member of the family.

Just as important he's sufficiently strong to withstand our boy's curiosity :)

New comment by klelatti in "Implementing a Z80 / ZX Spectrum emulator with Claude Code"

klelatti — Fri, 27 Feb 2026 11:51:36 +0000

Fascinating, but I'm not sure how these are consistent?

- Based on classic Z80 architecture by Zilog - Inspired by modern RISC designs (ARM, RISC-V, MIPS)