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 ...

The overwhelming contributor to energy consumption in AI processors is not arithmetic; it’s the movement of data.

Intel Corp. and Advanced Micro Devices Inc. today launched an industry group dedicated to improving the x86 instruction set architecture. Besides the two chipmakers, the consortium, announced at the ...

The British chip designer Arm Holdings Ltd. introduced a roadmap for its next-generation central processing unit architecture today. Its new breed of chips will be optimized for specialized workloads ...

One of Jim’s strongest convictions is how open ecosystems like RISC-V and Atlas are what create real progress. In his words, ...

Quantum computers, systems that process information leveraging quantum mechanical effects, have the potential of ...

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

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 ...

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 ...