Hackaday

History Of The SPARC CPU Architecture

[RetroBytes] nicely presents the curious history of the SPARC processor architecture. SPARC, short for Scalable Processor Architecture, defined some of the most commercially successful RISC processors ...
Forbes

The ISA Wars Have Ended And The Heterogeneous CPU Era Has Arrived

Discussions about CPUs often frame one instruction set architecture (ISA) against another—x86 vs. Arm, Arm vs. RISC-V, and so on. However, it’s common to use multiple CPU architectures in a single ...
EDN

Efficient Computer unveils ultra-energy-efficient processor

Chip startup Efficient Computer Corp. exited stealth mode in 2024 with a $16 million seed funding round with the announcement of its first computer processor, the E0 system-on-chip (SoC) for ...
Electronic Design

Power-Efficient Processor Leverages Novel Dataflow Architecture

Why this new architecture was the best thing at CES 2026. What is a dataflow architecture? Why Efficient Computer’s Electron E1 processor design is so radical. How the Electron E1 is able to be so ...
Semiconductor Engineering

An All-Optical General-Purpose CPU And Optical Computer Architecture (Akhetonics)

“Energy efficiency of electronic digital processors is primarily limited by the energy consumption of electronic communication and interconnects. The industry is almost unanimously pushing towards ...
Semiconductor Engineering

Will New Processor Architectures Raise Energy Efficiency?

Data centers continue to heat up as new processors consume more energy than ever before. Cooling is the primary weapon against the heat these processors generate, but it won’t be able to keep up ...
Design-Reuse

RISC-V: The Open-Source Revolution in CPU Architecture

RISC-V is an open-source Instruction Set Architecture (ISA) that rapidly transforms the CPU design and development landscape. Unlike proprietary ISAs, RISC-V allows free access to architecture ...
PC Gamer

AMD Zen 5 architecture: A ground up redesign that lays the foundation for future Ryzen CPU architectures

The AMD Zen 5 CPU architecture will form the backbone of the next generation of Ryzen desktop and laptop processors, and while we got a general idea of the new tech during the Computex unveiling a ...
Game Rant

AMD Zen 5 CPU Core Architecture Performance Details Leaked

Dane Enerio is a news writer from the Philippines. He started out in 2018 as a newspaper reporter that covered the government. Dane then moved on to online publications like Game Rant, where he always ...

AMD vs. Intel: The Only Rivals in the PC Processor Market

Explore the fierce rivalry between AMD and Intel, the two giants dominating the PC processor market. Discover their ...
Nature

Data Prefetching Techniques in Computer Architecture

Data prefetching has emerged as a critical approach to mitigate the performance bottlenecks imposed by memory access latencies in modern computer architectures. By predicting the data likely to be ...