This course examines fundamental issues and design trade-offs in modern processor architectures ... As such, we will draw material from seminal and recent publications in top computer architecture ...

The Intel 8080A chip, introduced in 1974, is widely regarded by engineers as the first commercially viable general-purpose ...

Last time I talked about getting started with CPU design by looking at older designs before trying to tackle a more modern architecture. In particular, I recommended Caxton Foster’s Blue ...

However, they offer "little utility in modern operating systems ... in a cross-licensing deal with rival CPU maker AMD. If Intel moves forward with the new x86S architecture, it might have some ...

The new AMD Ryzen 9 8945HX is still a Zen 4 gaming laptop chip, and it doesn't even increase the clock speed over its ...

It is claimed that any current Von Neumann architecture CPU can integrate a PPU ... Flow explains the key differences between its PPU and a modern GPU in a FAQ document. “PPU is optimized ...

Throw in modern superscalar execution ... Each instruction is 32 bits wide (the CPU has a Harvard-like architecture where data and instruction memory is different). The instructions have only ...

Jim Johnson, Intel's head of client computing, told the assembled Intel Vision 2025 throng that Panther Lake, "combines the power efficiency of Lunar Lake, the performance of Arrow Lake, and it's ...

Back at its Architecture Day 2021 event, when Intel shared the core design details of its Alder Lake CPU architecture, the firm stated that Windows 11 was optimized in a way to best take advantage ...