Why SNES hardware is running faster than expected—and why it’s a problem
To some observers, this is evidence that SNES APUs originally produced in the '90s have been speeding up slightly as they age ...
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Speedrunners Just Discovered a Strange Problem With Old SNES Consoles: They’re Sounding Faster
Some things in life are hard to understand. Why do socks vanish in the laundry? Why do cats stare at nothing for minutes on ...
The Super Nintendo is somehow getting faster with age.
We’ve come to expect reduced performance from aging hardware, but some gamers have discovered the opposite with the Super ...
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Beyond quartz: the silicon revolution in precision timing
“Our MEMS resonator is 0.5 by 0.5 millimeters—far smaller than today’s smallest quartz crystal. That reduced size translates ...
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Keeping Time With A Spring Powered Integrated Circuit
Once you’ve wrapped your head around that particularly awesome piece of engineering, you might want to jump into the details that make those quartz crystal resonators so useful.