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The chipmaker gives a name to the next-generation chip design that's at the heart of the company's fight against AMD. Stephen Shankland worked at CNET from 1998 to 2024 and wrote about processors, ...
The term x86-64v3 is once again a discussion point for Linux users, sparking curiosity and questions about its relevance to the platform. But what is it, why does it matter to Linux, and what is all ...
In early 2018, the tech industry was shocked by the discovery of hardware microarchitecture vulnerabilities that bypassed decades of work put into software and application security. Meltdown and ...
In this video from HiPEAC 2020, James Mickens from Harvard University presents: Software-defined Microarchitecture: An Arguably Terrible Idea, But Certainly Not The Worst Idea. All reasonable people ...
Recently, AMD went live with a livestream presentation in which it announced the next step in the company’s CPU architecture and product innovation. Though the headline news was expected to be the new ...
As designs move to finFET process nodes, dynamic power reduction has become a requirement. Designers have to eliminate or minimize all sources of redundant switching activity in order to reduce ...
Earlier in December Intel introduced its all new Intel Pentium Silver and Intel Celeron processors. Six new processors were released to systems and device makers and we should see the first fruits ...
At IDF 2015 in San Francisco last week, Intel unveiled some high level details about their latest Skylake microarchitecture, and while this article will encompass a lot of architectural improvements, ...