journal features
movie reviews
photo of the day

I love this new Macbook

the journal of Michael Werneburg

twenty-eight years and a million words

Kokubunji, 2021.10.19

There, I said it. It's got me reading about system-on-a-chip and ARM. This is a talk by Sophie Wilson of ARM fame. She talks about the problem with modern core-focused designs. She says that in current multi-core systems that 50% of the cores are actually disabled at any one time lest the chip melt.

rand()m quote

The nuclear arms race is like two sworn enemies standing waist deep in gasoline, one with three matches, the other with five.

—Carl Sagan