RISC-V is an open instruction set architecture, which means that anyone can create a core that understands RISC-V instructions without…
The RISC-V scene has been heating up. SiFive’s designs have moved into higher power and performance envelopes. Alibaba’s T-HEAD division…
Intel has maintained an integrated graphics effort for a long time. The company’s integrated GPUs were not expected to do…
As recent events have made clear, testing is hard. Determining a CPU’s scheduler layout involves a lot of testing, making…
ARM’s Neoverse N1 was based on ARM’s Cortex A76 mobile core, but enhancements like instruction cache coherency and 48-bit physical…
ARM Ltd has been dominating the Android world for the better part of the last decade, with their 7-series cores…
Processor companies typically iterate off proven designs, and for good reason. Changing too many things at once introduces a lot…
AMD, Nvidia, and Intel have all diverged their GPU architectures to separately optimize for compute and graphics. While Intel and…
Last year we posted an article about Milan’s V-cache performance where we dived into the bandwidth and latency performance of…
CPU design is hard. You can tell because there aren’t a lot of companies doing it. AMD and Intel are…