PickVidsBest Computer architecture & CPUs Videos
The 148 Computer architecture & CPUs videos here were recommended by different people across different months. Choose by who it is for: 8 introductory, 60 intermediate, 45 for a general viewer, and 35 for someone who wants the harder derivation. Most of them are a talk. What they share is that one speaker finishes a claim, and the examples exist to hold that claim up. Channels you will keep seeing include Linus Tech Tips, Ben Eater, Gamers Nexus.
A Crash Course in Modern Hardware by Cliff Click
Cliff Click walks through a small performance example on a modern out-of-order CPU.
How "oldschool" graphics worked Part 1 - Commodore and Nintendo
The 8-Bit Guy explains the color limitations of 1980s computers and consoles such as the NES and Commodore 64.
The Only Famous Motherboard
Cathode Ray Dude's hour-long retrospective on the ABIT BP6, the dual-Celeron motherboard.
DEF CON 26 - Christopher Domas - The Ring 0 Facade Awakening the Processors Inner Demons
Christopher Domas's DEF CON 26 talk on secret processor registers that vendors reserve for third parties holding trusted keys.
Emulating the DX7 the HARD way
An episode of Plogue's chipresearch series on emulating the Yamaha DX7 from the hardware up.
Stanford Seminar: Beyond Floating Point: Next Generation Computer Arithmetic
John Gustafson presents posits, a proposed drop-in replacement for IEEE 754 floats that is simpler in hardware and more flexible in precision.
Intel - Anti-Competitive, Anti-Consumer, Anti-Technology.
AdoredTV's history of Intel's monopolistic behavior over three decades, covering its dealings with AMD and its anti-consumer practices.
The Smartphone CPU Review You NEED to Watch!
Geekerwan reviews smartphone CPUs by power efficiency rather than benchmark scores, with test methodology and chapters on Qualcomm, Apple, Samsung and Google chips.
3dfx Oral History Panel with Ross Smith, Scott Sellers, Gary Tarolli, and Gordon Campbell
A Computer History Museum oral history panel with four 3dfx founders on the company's rise with Voodoo Graphics and Glide, and its fall into bankruptcy.
DEF CON 19 - Artem Dinaburg - Bit-squatting: DNS Hijacking Without Exploitation
Artem Dinaburg's DEF CON 19 talk on bit-squatting, where DRAM bit flips cause DNS requests to go to domains one bit off from the intended one.
Living Computation: Robust-first programming in ULAM
Dave Ackley presents robust-first computing and the ULAM programming language for the Movable Feast Machine, a cellular-automata-like architecture.
Stanford Seminar - Generalized Reversible Computing and the Unconventional Computing Landscape
A Stanford EE380 seminar by Michael P.
Tuesday @ 1130 ISA Shootout – a Comparison of RISC V, ARM, and x86 Chris Celio, UC Berkeley V2
Chris Celio of UC Berkeley compares the RISC-V, ARM and x86 instruction sets, with quantitative data on instruction counts and code density.
Chuck Moore's Fireside Chat 2011
Chuck Moore, creator of Forth, gives his annual Fireside Chat at Forth Day 2011 at Stanford.
Scale By The Bay 2019: Bryan Cantrill, Was He Wright All Along? Software After Moore's Law
Bryan Cantrill's Scale By The Bay 2019 talk on software after Moore's Law.
HC2023-K2: Hardware for Deep Learning
Bill Dally of NVIDIA gives a Hot Chips 2023 keynote on the challenges of building hardware for deep learning.
Making logic gates from transistors
Ben Eater shows how to build logic gates out of transistors, including NOR gates.
The Charming Genius of the Apollo Guidance Computer - Brian Troutwine
Brian Troutwine's Code Mesh 2015 talk on the Apollo Guidance Computer.
COLLAPSE of Personal Computing | Investigation Into the Destruction of Ownership
A roughly 3.5-hour Gamers Nexus investigation into rising PC component prices, driven largely by AI data-center demand for memory and other hardware.
He started a computing REVOLUTION—then the shortage hit
Jeff Geerling interviews Raspberry Pi co-founder Eben Upton about the Pi shortage, the RP2040, RISC-V, the Sony investment and the origin of the name.
Here's What Happens When an 18 Year Old Buys a Mainframe
Connor Krukosky, an 18-year-old college student and vintage computer collector, tells how he bought an IBM z890 mainframe and got it running at home.
Oxide and Friends 7/3/2023 -- Shipping the first Oxide rack: Your questions answered!
A two-hour Oxide and Friends session answering questions after shipping the first Oxide rack.
Vampire 2 Review - The Fastest Amiga Ever?!
Dan Wood reviews the Vampire 2 FPGA accelerator for the Amiga 600.
Is It Really Impossible To Cool A Datacenter In Space?
Scott Manley explains the thermal balance of spacecraft and how a satellite could be configured to radiate away the heat from datacenter-scale computing in space.