The chipmaker gives a name to the next-generation chip design that's at the heart of the company's fight against AMD. Stephen Shankland worked at CNET from 1998 to 2024 and wrote about processors, ...

New leaks have surface about AMD Zen 9 microarchitecture, revealing its likely launch timeline, codename and more. Hardware ...

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Recently, AMD went live with a livestream presentation in which it announced the next step in the company’s CPU architecture and product innovation. Though the headline news was expected to be the new ...

In early 2018, the tech industry was shocked by the discovery of hardware microarchitecture vulnerabilities that bypassed decades of work put into software and application security. Meltdown and ...

Try to investigate the differences between the x86 and ARM processor families (or x86 and the Apple M1), and you'll see the acronyms CISC and RISC. It's a common way to frame the discussion, but not a ...

As designs move to finFET process nodes, dynamic power reduction has become a requirement. Designers have to eliminate or minimize all sources of redundant switching activity in order to reduce ...

In this video from HiPEAC 2020, James Mickens from Harvard University presents: Software-defined Microarchitecture: An Arguably Terrible Idea, But Certainly Not The Worst Idea. All reasonable people ...

Earlier in December Intel introduced its all new Intel Pentium Silver and Intel Celeron processors. Six new processors were released to systems and device makers and we should see the first fruits ...

High-resolution peripheral quantitative CT (HRpQCT) provides more detailed information than older methods. A new study shows that radial and tibial HRpQCT measurements are associated with incident ...