[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 ...

With growing interest in computer security and the protection of the code and data which execute on commodity computers, the amount of hardware security features in today’s processors has recently ...

When we are introduced to the internals of a microprocessor, it is most likely that we will be shown something like one of the first generation of 8-bit CPUs from the 1970s. There will be the familiar ...

“Energy efficiency of electronic digital processors is primarily limited by the energy consumption of electronic communication and interconnects. The industry is almost unanimously pushing towards ...

I was recently writing about AMD's new Zen architecture (now Ryzen), and Intel's Kaby Lake chips are coming out soon. I throw around a lot of technical jargon that can come off sounding like insane ...

Despite continuous improvements and incremental upgrades with each new generation, processors haven't seen any industry-shifting advancements in a long time. The transition from vacuum tubes to ...

In this post, we will explain what is a computer CPU pipeline. CPU (an abbreviation of the Central Processing Unit) is an important part of the computer that functions like a brain. And we already ...

AMD’s Heterogeneous System Architecture (HSA) is a hardware framework that provides Heterogeneous Uniform Memory Access (HUMA) to CPUs and GPUs. The reason for putting it in the software category is ...

Forward-looking: After being beaten by AMD in introducing the first, truly 64-bit instruction set in the x86 CPU world, Intel is now trying to get ahead of its historical competitor by working on a ...