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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