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 ...

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.

TRIPS is an example of a new computer architecture called EDGE for Explicit Data Graph Execution. While a traditional processor makes use of limited parallel processing to increase instruction ...

The British chip designer Arm Holdings Ltd. introduced a roadmap for its next-generation central processing unit architecture today. Its new breed of chips will be optimized for specialized ...

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.

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.

The proposed x86S CPU architecture from Intel would ditch support for 32-bit apps and operating systems entirely in favor of 64-bit software, but it could support older apps with virtualization.

Intel released a new CPU model this week, the Intel Core i9 7900X, which is the latest model to feature a new cache architecture that hardware experts believe it will make exploitation of side ...