Random Facts #89 · 4:54am May 12th, 2017
I seriously need to, like, set an alarm or something to remind me that I do this daily. :P
PowerVR, though little-known in the mainstream PC world, produces GPUs for mobile devices, ranging from the iPhone (which Apple's going to use its own in-house GPU instead of PowerVR's for the next gen), to many, many Android phones and tablets.
Nvidia used to make chipsets and integrated graphics chips for AMD.
AMD, Intel, VIA, and IBM-branded CPUs once all used the same standard socket layout.
Much of Texas Instruments' TI-xx line of graphing calculators still use the ancient (in computer lifespan terms) Zilog Z80 CPU. Though the chip is old and is commonly associated with text-based interfaces such as CP/M, it's still powerful enough to run many programs and games, hence why the Gameboy series of consoles contained a Z80 as a main processor, before later utilizing it as a coprocessor for backwards compatibility.
Linux was developed originally for Intel's i386 x86 platform, and has since been ported to dozens of architectures. Yet, only in the past couple of years have the original 32-bit i386 become unsupported. (I'm not talking i386 as in referring to 32-bit x86 CPUs as a whole, but the original Intel 386 lineup from the 80s.)
