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The first of these phones, the Nokia 8110, was the first GSM handset with an ARM core. It would become famous a few years later when it appeared in the movie The Matrix.
A History of ARM, Part 2: Everything Starts to Come Together
arstechnica.com
The Nintendo DS includes two very independent computers that will perform exclusive operations, each one having a dedicated bus. This design methodology is called Asymmetric multiprocessing and the resulting CPUs’ co-dependency will condition the overall performance of this console.
Crudely oversimplifying, the rule in the US is that if you sell securities to accredited venture capitalists and they immediately turn around and dump them on retail investors, that’s bad, that’s a public offering of securities and you and the VCs get in trouble. But if you sell the securities to VCs and lock them up for a year, and at the end of the year the VCs dump them on retail, that’s fine, that’s allowed: You sold the securities under an exemption from registration (just to the VCs), and they sold the securities in a regular secondary-market transaction that doesn’t need to be registered.
UBS Cuts Out Credit Suisse - Bloomberg
Matt Levine
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