AMD just published what appears to be the first official technical documentation for its upcoming Zen 6 CPU architecture.

Abstract: Traditional instruction set architectures rely on instructions specifying data types to execute the correct operations, e.g., integer or floating-point addition. This duplication of ...

Zubyan is a certified PCHP and Google IT Support Professional. Some programs and games require a feature called AVX to function properly. AVX stands for Advanced Vector Extensions, a set of processor ...

AES-NI is a CPU instruction set that accelerates AES encryption/decryption using hardware-based processing. Provides 3x–10x performance improvement over software-only AES implementations. Enhances ...

Microsoft scientists have created a quantum processor that taps into a rare state of matter that was first theorized in the 1930s, paving the way for a processor with a million qubits within years.

RISC-V, an open instruction set architecture (ISA), is reshaping the global computing landscape. Unlike proprietary ISAs such as x86, widely used by Intel and AMD, or ARM, which dominates mobile and ...

In 1980 IBM, under pressure from its customers to provide computers for personal use, not just mainframes, set out to create the IBM PC; given the project’s low internal priority but high external ...

Some of the best Arm processors come from companies like Apple and Qualcomm, which license Arm’s processor instruction set but create their own custom or semi-custom CPU designs. But Arm continues to ...

Over the past decade I have been involved in several projects that have designed either instruction set architecture (ISA) extensions or clean-slate ISAs for various kinds of processors (you will even ...