Processor vendors are starting to emphasize microarchitectural improvements and data movement over process node scaling, setting the stage for much bigger performance gains in devices that narrowly ...

Programming processors is becoming more complicated as more and different types of processing elements are included in the same architecture. While systems architects may revel in the number of ...

AMD just published what appears to be the first official technical documentation for its upcoming Zen 6 CPU architecture.

Tensilica has delivered a range of processor architectures like the Xtensa LX (see Power Play For The SoC Developers) as well as DSP and the ConnX comm processor (see Dataplane Processing Unit More ...

Snapdragon processor naming convictions have become a lot more confusing recently, especially with the Snapdragon 7 series with new sub-variants. To summarize, we have three categories in the ...

The recent IEEE International Solid State Circuits Conference (ISSCC) in San Francisco had numerous interesting advancements among the 210 papers presented. In the area of processors Renesas/Hitachi ...

With the launch of the 4 th generation of Intel Xeon Scalable processors and the Xeon CPU Max series, which were codenamed Sapphire Rapids, Intel is charting a new server architecture path for the ...