Technology

32-bit just won't die!

Just nuts that my 386 was to big to take on my pushy as a kid and now the same thing would get lost in my nose hairs

The future: we have replaced the microplastic in our blood with microcontrollers

Nanobots of 90's sci-fi, here we finally come!

"It does in fact run Doom", he said before he snorted a line of his new favorite drug - a dark grey line of Megaflops.

Wear your N95 around the next gen SoCs. We don't know the effects of inhaling them (yet)

In broad terms, that seems to put it about on par with an Intel 386 chip from 1985

At 24 MHz, it's actually about 4-6 times faster than a full fledged 33 MHz i80386DX with 10 times as many transistors back in the day.
It's absolutely insane that i386 remained the standard with its inferior high latency design.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Acorn_Archimedes

exhibiting BASIC language performance ten times faster than a newly introduced 80386-based computer

That was an 8MHz Arm system, and it was commonly recognized as being clearly faster than a 33MHz i80386DX!
In fact the 8036 was so inefficient at 33MHz it couldn't even beat the speed of a 16 MHz 80286 on 16 bit code!!
Mips, Alpha, Motorola, Sparc and finally Arm were all better, but they weren't backed by IBM, and the availability of clones made the PC relatively cheap. But basically everything else was better than Intel.

Unfortunately Arm also lacked a math co-processor, so for tasks that were heavy on FP calculations, an i386 with co-processor was superior.
Also Arm was unable to sell them cheap enough to capture at least a niche market. (Apart from education in UK)
And for the hobbyist an Amiga was way cheaper, and had powerful graphics and sound chips.

This is making the Republicans so nervous.

This article was written by someone who only knows buzz words. They said it's "not just the silicon(edited from silicone), but the entire microcontroller" what do they think processors have other than silicone?

Edit: silicone->silicon