Comments on: PIC 1,000-times faster than Nvidia GPUs

By: David Manners

David Manners — Mon, 24 Nov 2025 15:29:25 +0000

In reply to Neil Macmillan. That’s why the microprocessor industry is so hugely successful - Scotland invented it. Pico beat Intel to the first microprocessor by about 6 months with, like Intel’s 4004, a chip for a calculator.

By: Neil Macmillan

Neil Macmillan — Mon, 24 Nov 2025 08:24:58 +0000

The PIC was actually a Scottish invention from PICO Electronics + General Instruments. It didn’t actually originate from (Arizona) Microchip. To quote Mike Myers from Saturday Night Live, “If it isnae Scottish, its kraaaaap!”

By: David Manners

David Manners — Sat, 22 Nov 2025 09:51:03 +0000

In reply to J ozerbeer. The article’s pretty factual, J, and it’s a bit hard to call the whole thing “crap” just because it uses the common abbreviation for Photonic ICs - which happens to be a Microchip trade name for its MCUs. Very good MCUs they are too but if photonics keeps growing as it is then Microchip will find it more and more difficult to claim exclusivity for the acronym PIC.

By: J ozerbeer

J ozerbeer — Fri, 21 Nov 2025 20:02:52 +0000

Your article is crap. For decades we have known the term PIC to be trademark of microchip. You should know better that to misuse it. Sure, lawyers marketers and the chinese don give a s. You should. I offer PHOTIC. Coin it. Use it. Make it stick. Leave PIC to microchip.