News for hackers. Stuff that matters.

A comment on Die photos and analysis of the revolutionary 8008 microprocessor (2016).

Re:Die photos and analysis of the revolutionary 8008 micropr... by Arbalest on Tuesday June 02, 2020 @07:10PM (#23397626)
I'm curious, what could be made out of a processor in the order of 4000 transistors as here, but with entirely modern chip design and fabrication tech? What could you put out on TSMC's 7nm, presumably an extremely small wafer.
[ Parent | on HN ]
Re:Die photos and analysis of the revolutionary 8008 micropr... by sand500 on Tuesday June 02, 2020 @07:22PM (#23397729)
maybe the cpu in a sd card?
[ Parent | on HN ]
Re:Die photos and analysis of the revolutionary 8008 micropr... by close04 on Wednesday June 03, 2020 @04:44AM (#23401349)
Apparently those are derivative of a much newer controller, the Intel 8051 (1980), heavily modified, running at up to 450MHz, and with added hardware accelerators.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Intel_MCS-51#Use_as_intellectu...

[ Parent | on HN ]