According to SiFive, its engineers enhanced the two designs with a new co-processor interface. The technology will make it ...

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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 ...

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

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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 ...

Nvidia announced its next-gen Hopper GPU architecture and the Hopper H100 GPU, and a new data center chip that combines the GPU with a high-performance CPU.

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