John Siracusa and Dan Benjamin revisit the topic of voting technology, then discuss the possibility of Apple using ARM processors instead of Intel processors in its Macs: RISC vs. CISC, process nodes, the x86 burden, and…sewing machines.

Links for this episode:

• Apple Said to Be Exploring Switch From Intel for Mac - Businessweek
  
• RISC vs. CISC: the Post-RISC Era (1999) - Ars Technica
  
• Reduced instruction set computing - Wikipedia
  
• Complex instruction set computing - Wikipedia
  
• RISC vs. CISC in the mobile era (2008) - Ars Technica
  
• x86 instruction listings - Wikipedia
  
• Secret Life of Machines The Sewing Machine Part 1 - YouTube
  
• Secret Life of Machines The Sewing Machine Part 2 - YouTube
  
• How a Sewing Machine Works (animation) - swiss-miss.com
  
• Micro-operation - Wikipedia
  
• x87 - Wikipedia
  
• SSE (Streaming SIMD Extensions) - Wikipedia
  
• SSE2 - Wikipedia
  
• SSE3 - Wikipedia
  
• SSE4 - Wikipedia
  
• x86-64 - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
  
• Lithography - Wikipedia
  
• 22 nanometer - Wikipedia
  
• Ivy Bridge (microarchitecture) - Wikipedia
  
• Apple A6 - Wikipedia
  
• Understanding Moore’s Law - Ars Technica
  
• Ivy Bridge: 1.4B Transistors - AnandTech
  
• Intel 8086 - Wikipedia
  
• Haswell (microarchitecture) - Wikipedia
  
• TSMC - Wikipedia
  
• Picking up the pieces: John Siracusa mourns the Power PC (2005) - Ars Technica
  
• Intel's Haswell CPU Microarchitecture - Real World Tech
  
• eVoting after Nedap and Digital Pen (video) - events.ccc.de
  
• eVoting after Nedap and Digital Pen - events.ccc.de
  
• Luddite - Wikipedia
  
• Why You Can't Vote Online Yet - On The Media
  

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