A weekly talk show ruminating on exactly what is wrong in the world of Apple and related technologies and businesses. Nothing is so perfect that it can't be complained about. Hosted by John Siracusa & Dan Benjamin.
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Episode 94: 94: Shrink, Shrink, Shrink!
John Siracusa and Dan Benjamin revisit the topic of voting technology, then discuss the possibility of Apple using ARM processors instead of Intel processors in its Macs: RISC vs. CISC, process nodes, the x86 burden, and…sewing machines.
Links for this episode:
- Apple Said to Be Exploring Switch From Intel for Mac - Businessweek
- RISC vs. CISC: the Post-RISC Era (1999) - Ars Technica
- Reduced instruction set computing - Wikipedia
- Complex instruction set computing - Wikipedia
- RISC vs. CISC in the mobile era (2008) - Ars Technica
- x86 instruction listings - Wikipedia
- Secret Life of Machines The Sewing Machine Part 1 - YouTube
- Secret Life of Machines The Sewing Machine Part 2 - YouTube
- How a Sewing Machine Works (animation) - swiss-miss.com
- Micro-operation - Wikipedia
- x87 - Wikipedia
- SSE (Streaming SIMD Extensions) - Wikipedia
- SSE2 - Wikipedia
- SSE3 - Wikipedia
- SSE4 - Wikipedia
- x86-64 - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
- Lithography - Wikipedia
- 22 nanometer - Wikipedia
- Ivy Bridge (microarchitecture) - Wikipedia
- Apple A6 - Wikipedia
- Understanding Moore’s Law - Ars Technica
- Ivy Bridge: 1.4B Transistors - AnandTech
- Intel 8086 - Wikipedia
- Haswell (microarchitecture) - Wikipedia
- TSMC - Wikipedia
- Picking up the pieces: John Siracusa mourns the Power PC (2005) - Ars Technica
- Intel's Haswell CPU Microarchitecture - Real World Tech
- eVoting after Nedap and Digital Pen (video) - events.ccc.de
- eVoting after Nedap and Digital Pen - events.ccc.de
- Luddite - Wikipedia
- Why You Can't Vote Online Yet - On The Media
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