Processors lie at the heart of your computer. They juggle millions of instructions every second so you can watch Netflix and play Fallout 4. They throttle their clockspeeds to save power, and boost ...

In the eighties, computer processors became faster and faster, while memory access times stagnated and hindered additional performance increases. Something had to be done to speed up memory access and ...

Intel’s Nehalem processor has several features aimed at better management of the processor cores. The Nehalem has four cores, each of which is capable of running two threads simultaneously, using a ...

In a previous post, we considered how you could create an optimized ISA for a domain-specific processor core by profiling software and experimenting with adding/removing instructions. Using the open ...