Unlike DSPs, superscalar processors you’d find in your desktop have an enormous amount of registers, and most of these are rename registers, or places where the CPU stores a value temporarily.

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 ...

Design and understanding of the computer system as a whole unit. Performance Evaluation and its role in computer system design; Instruction Set Architecture design, Datapath design and optimizations ...

VIEW ALL COURSE TIMES AND SESSIONS Prerequisites COMP_ENG 452 – Advanced Computer Architecture I (or equivalent out-of-order processor architecture course); Useful but not required: COMP_ENG 453 – ...

Chinese processor company Loongson Technology announced that its processor instruction set architecture (ISA), LoongArch, is now supported by the System Management BIOS (SMBIOS) specification, meaning ...

In 2020, Intel is also still launching new versions of its 14nm architecture as well. Its 10th-gen Comet Lake H processors were launched on larger, more powerful laptops.

Mark Papermaster, AMD's chief technology officer, tells PCWorld that its new Zen chip architecture is expected to last four years, including derivatives.

Intel’s next-generation Ivy Bridge has now become the company’s current-generation flagship CPU architecture. Built at 22nm, it’s primarily a die shrink of the highly successful Sandy Bridge ...

Intel, AMD, and NVIDIA all produce processors, both CPUs and GPUs. Here are the best choices for your laptop or computer in any given situation.