Two decades ago, AMD’s K8 architecture went head to head against Intel’s best. But unlike the “Zen versus something-lake” situation…
A few days ago, we looked at the power costs associated with moving data on some desktop parts. This is…
Processor caches are known to improve performance, but they also significantly influence power efficiency. Modern CPUs spend a lot of…
Author’s Note: Since the publication of this article, we have since had an interview with Tachyum and nearly all of…
In the world of today’s high performance CPUs, major architectural changes don’t happen often. Iterating off a proven base is…
This is going the be the first in a series of articles on CPU architectures. We’re picking up where Real…
In late May of 2022, AWS released Graviton 3 to the general public. Graviton 3 was the first ARM CPU…
Like CPUs, modern GPUs have evolved to use complex, multi level cache hierarchies. Integrated GPUs are no exception. In fact,…
In our last article, we examined Centaur’s CNS architecture. Centaur had a long history as a third x86 CPU designer,…
Centaur’s CHA chip targets the server market with a low core count. Its dual socket capability is therefore quite important,…