One of Jim’s strongest convictions is how open ecosystems like RISC-V and Atlas are what create real progress. In his words, ...

[RetroBytes] nicely presents the curious history of the SPARC processor architecture. SPARC, short for Scalable Processor Architecture, defined some of the most commercially successful RISC processors ...

Chip startup Efficient Computer Corp. exited stealth mode in 2024 with a $16 million seed funding round with the announcement of its first computer processor, the E0 system-on-chip (SoC) for ...

Arm has announced the Armv9 instruction set architecture (ISA), its first new architecture in over a decade. The chip designer seems confident that Armv9 is going to be a success, and it is going to ...

The drastic changes in processor technology development over the decades. Some of the key players in the early days of mainframes. The rise of microprocessors. The shrinking size of today's ...

Following months of leaks, AMD has finally confirmed that its future CPU architecture will be called Zen 7, after its upcoming Zen 6 chips.

Data prefetching has emerged as a critical approach to mitigate the performance bottlenecks imposed by memory access latencies in modern computer architectures. By predicting the data likely to be ...

Data centers continue to heat up as new processors consume more energy than ever before. Cooling is the primary weapon against the heat these processors generate, but it won’t be able to keep up ...

The laptops hitting store shelves in 2022 will have a lot of cores. Intel’s 12 th-gen Core processors for mobile, revealed at CES 2022 and starting to hit the streets now, pack up to 14 cores, and the ...