Fascinating die photos:
http://zeptobars.com/en/ . Of particular interest to us here, a Zilog z80 (
http://zeptobars.com/en/read/Zilog-Z80-Z0840004PSC ), from which you can find links to die photos of DDR and USSR z80s.
KermMartian wrote:
Those would make some pretty great desktop backgrounds.
Hardware is the worst:
Hard drives are becoming more like SSDs in their controller complexity, too:
Skylight - A Window on Shingled Disk Operation. Fun thing about this one is that they literally put a window in a functioning hard drive to validate their models.
A Mathematician's Lament
Pretty good commentary on the current state of mathematics education.
I always enjoy some good articles about hard-to-track-down nondeterminism. MaxLeiter helpfully reminded me of a great old story, and showed me a new one I hadn't previously read:
https://www.ibiblio.org/harris/500milemail.html
http://gallium.inria.fr/blog/intel-skylake-bug/
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