Great week at embedded world North America 2025!

We launched the AKD1500 co-processor and saw how generative AI is changing hardware design.

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#EmbeddedWorld #GenerativeAI #HardwareDesign #TechInnovation #CoProcessor #AIInTech #EmbeddedSystem #TechConference #FutureOfTech

A Forgotten Consumer PC Becomes a Floating Point Powerhouse <div><img alt="" class="attachment-large size-large wp-post-image" height="450" src="https://hackaday.com/wp-content/uploads/2025/02/8087-pcb-featured.jpg?w=800" style="margin: 0 auto; margin-bottom: 15px;" width="800" /></div>[Michael Wessel] found some of his old DOS 3D graphics software and tried to run it on an 8088 PC. The tale of adding an 8087 co-processor to speed up <a class="read-more" href="https://hackaday.com/2025/02/17/a-forgotten-consumer-pc-becomes-a-floating-point-powerhouse/">&#8230;read more</a>

A Forgotten Consumer PC Becomes a Floating Point Powerhouse [Michael Wessel] found some of his ol...

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#Retrocomputing #8087 #intel #math #coprocessor

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A Forgotten Consumer PC Becomes a Floating Point Powerhouse <div><img alt="" class="attachment-large size-large wp-post-image" height="450" src="https://hackaday.com/wp-content/uploads/2025/02/8087-pcb-featured.jpg?w=800" style="margin: 0 auto; margin-bottom: 15px;" width="800" /></div>[Michael Wessel] found some of his old DOS 3D graphics software and tried to run it on an 8088 PC. The tale of adding an 8087 co-processor to speed up <a class="read-more" href="https://hackaday.com/2025/02/17/a-forgotten-consumer-pc-becomes-a-floating-point-powerhouse/">&#8230;read more</a>

A Forgotten Consumer PC Becomes a Floating Point Powerhouse [Michael Wessel] found some of his ol...

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#Retrocomputing #8087 #intel #math #coprocessor

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WEITEK 8-megaflop 64-bit floating-point chip set crunches numbers Not budgets

WEITEK 8-megaflop 64-bit floating-point chip set crunches numbers
Not budgets
#retrocomputing #ad #retrocomputer #vintage #computer #FPU #performance #HPC #coprocessor #CPU

For the bulk of the past decade, the computer manufacturer* has maintained the "party line" that their successive models of high-end machines possessed all the performance that would be required for the foreseeable future. (This "party line" alternated with abortive attempts to, in fact, build high performance, compatible extensions of the product line which turned out to be neither high performance nor compatible.)

This is how the article begins. Keep in mind that the author is the guy who was in charge of building the ILLIAC IV project.

#HPC #coprocessor #ILLIAC #ILLIACIV #supercomputer #MIMD #SIMD