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ARM and RISC-V: The Semiconductor Industry's New Competition Over Instruction Sets

Crossing the corporate histories of Intel, AMD, Apple, and NVIDIA. Delving deeply into the historical architectural battles of x86, ARM, and RISC-V, hegemony in the mobile market, the impact of Apple Silicon, the emergence of the open-source ISA RISC-V, and its geopolitical and technological significance.

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History of PDF: The Standard That Brought Paper Directly into the Digital World

Starting with Adobe's PostScript, going through the Camelot Project that enabled document sharing across different OSs, we unravel the history and technical evolution of PDF, which became the global standard for digital documents.

Featured image of post SBOM and SLSA: How to Protect Development Environments from Software Supply Chain Attacks

SBOM and SLSA: How to Protect Development Environments from Software Supply Chain Attacks

A complete guide to supply chain defense in GitHub Actions and CI/CD. From the lessons of the SolarWinds incident, we thoroughly explain the generation and management of SBOM (SPDX/CycloneDX), the 4 levels of SLSA, and how to implement signature verification using Sigstore.

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LLM Inference Acceleration: How KV Cache and Speculative Decoding Work

A deep dive into llama.cpp and quantization. From the memory bandwidth wall to PagedAttention and Speculative Decoding, we thoroughly explain the bottlenecks of Transformer inference and the latest optimization technologies.