What's the point of this all? This is late for like 30,40 years to the game.

I mean: ZILOG probably already did it all in like 1982

I’m sure Zilog did. But they didn’t share it with us. The history here is interesting.

From the hn guidelines:

"On-Topic: Anything that good hackers would find interesting. That includes more than hacking and startups. If you had to reduce it to a sentence, the answer might be: anything that gratifies one's intellectual curiosity. "