Amazon just dropped it to an all-time low of $429 for Black Friday, down from its $599 list price. That’s the largest ...

There are some features in any architecture that are essential, foundational, and non-negotiable. Right up to the moment that some clever architect shows us that this is not so. What is true of ...

Much is made in marketing literature of the energy efficiency of different processor architectures. The power consumption of the processor is relevant but a small component of the overall power budget ...

Optimizing any system is a multi-layered problem, but when it involves a processor there are at least three levels to consider. Architects must be capable of thinking across these boundaries because ...

Virtually every microprocessor and DSP in use today uses the stored-program concept designed by Hungarian mathematician John von Neumann more than 50 years ago. Using this architecture, programs and ...

We have developed and tested a secure new computer processor that thwarts hackers by randomly changing its underlying structure, thus making it virtually impossible to hack. A processor is the piece ...

In every level of electronics from smart watches to the cloud, performance efficiency is critical. For the past fifty years, Moore’s law has been the driving force in technology – the ability to ...

We all think of the CPU as the "brains" of a computer, but what does that actually mean? What is going on inside with the billions of transistors that make your computer work? In this four-part series ...

The Xen Project, an open source hypervisor hosted at the Linux Foundation, today announced the release of Xen 4.21, which ...