Inside the Machine

Acknowledgments

This book is a distillation and adaptation of over eight years’ worth of my technical articles and news reporting for Ars Technica, and as such, it reflects the insights and information offered to me by the many thousands of readers who’ve taken the time to contact me with their feedback. Journalists, professors, students, industry professionals, and, in many cases, some of the scientists and engineers who’ve worked on the processors covered in this book have all contributed to the text within these pages, and I want to thank these correspondents for their corrections, clarifications, and patient explanations. In particular, I’d like to thank the folks at IBM for their help with the articles that provided the material for the part ...