Nothing ever made is truly perfect and indeed, CPU architectures like x86, RISC-V, ARM, and PowerPC all have their own upsides and downsides. Today, I aim to make an architecture that learns from all ...

When considering the future of CPU architecture, some industry watchers predict excitement, and some predict boredom. But no one predicts a return to the old days, when speed doubled at least every ...

Intel has reportedly granted startup RosaicLabs access to Atom processor register-transfer-level code. RTL describes the functional behavior of a processor design and provides substantially deeper ...

SoC and system design is already complicated, but as complexity continues to rise the industry must determine how to maintain sensitivity to power and cost and performance in the CPU architecture.

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I have a certain basic understanding of how CPUs are made up with functional blocks, stages in a pipeline, why instructions are decoded and dispatched, and a naive understanding of cache hierarchy.

Intel's Rocket Lake could deliver the largest uplift in chipset capabilities that we've seen in quite some time -- as well as a new CPU architecture despite the fact that RLK is still a 14nm part.

For years, processors focused on performance, and that performance had little accountability to anything else. Performance still matters, but now it must be accountable to power. If small gains in ...