Zen 2’s launch was a defining moment for AMD. For the first time in many, many years, AMD’s single thread…
Loongson used to make CPUs based off the MIPS ISA, but the company recently switched to a homegrown ISA called…
In 2019, AMD moved off their long-serving GCN architecture in favor of RDNA. We’ll cover the first generation of RDNA…
After Conroe’s launch in 2006, Intel had an excellent core architecture (Merom). They smacked AMD around in the client space…
Loongson’s 3A5000 represents another domestic CPU effort from China. It implements four LA464 cores, and targets everything from desktops to…
In Part 1, we looked at Bulldozer’s core architecture. But the architecture itself isn’t the full story. Memory advances have…
AMD’s K7 Athlon architecture formed the basis of the company’s CPU offerings for around a decade. Athlon did very well…
In late December 2022, we published an article going over how Intel optimized Golden Cove’s vector register file to handle…
Editor’s Note (6/14/2023): We have a new article that reevaluates the cache latency of Navi 31, so please refer to…
We covered Zen 4’s core architecture in depth in two articles. This one will focus on anything we didn’t manage…