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 ...

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 ...

Try to investigate the differences between the x86 and ARM processor families (or x86 and the Apple M1), and you'll see the acronyms CISC and RISC. It's a common way to frame the discussion, but not a ...

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 ...

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 ...

Northwestern Engineering’s Simone Campanoni and Nikos Hardavellas served as the general co-chairs of the 55th IEEE/ACM International Symposium on Microarchitecture (MICRO 2022), held in Chicago last ...