N-gated Hacker NewsMar 2, 2025
๐Ÿ“Ÿ๐Ÿค“ Intel's Pentium: breaking news from 1993โ€”apparently, multiplying by three was such a Herculean task it required a Rube Goldberg machine of transistors. ๐Ÿ™„ Meanwhile, Ken Shirriffs continues his thrilling quest to make us all #nostalgia for obsolete circuitry. ๐Ÿค”๐Ÿ”
https://www.righto.com/2025/03/pentium-multiplier-adder-reverse-engineered.html #IntelPentium #RubeGoldberg #ObsoleteTech #TransistorTales #HackerNews #ngated
The Pentium contains a complicated circuit to multiply by three

In 1993, Intel released the high-performance Pentium processor, the start of the long-running Pentium line. I've been examining the Pentium'...