An interesting thread of reasoning emerged at several different spots during the Research@Intel Day yesterday. The thread started with a passing mention, during CTO Justin Rattner’s introductory ...

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 workloads ...

RISC-V is an open-source Instruction Set Architecture (ISA) that rapidly transforms the CPU design and development landscape. Unlike proprietary ISAs, RISC-V allows free access to architecture ...

In the most simple computer system architecture, all control lies with the CPU (Central Processing Unit). This means not only the execution of commands that affect the CPU’s internal register or cache ...

The computer system aboard the current Artemis II lunar space mission is from a different world that the one from the Apollo ...

Many broadcasters find that they are expected to maintain specialized broadcast equipment and be well-qualified in a wide variety of IT technologies, including computer architectures, operating ...

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 ...

Home > Computing AMD Fusion System Architecture Moves to Unify CPUs and GPUs If you thought that AMD's new A-Series CPU-and-GPU-on-a-chip (APU) was cool, hold on to your seats: the A-Series is just ...

AMD’s Heterogeneous System Architecture (HSA) hardware framework provides Heterogeneous Uniform Memory Access (hUMA) to CPUs and GPUs (Fig. 1). It radically changes the way CPUs and GPUs will interact ...