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 ...

Page 2: Intel Tremont Microarchitecture - New Instructions And Expected Performance Late last year, at its Architecture Day event, Intel revealed a new, low-power microarchitecture, codenamed Tremont, ...

The Itanium and Itanium 2 processors are the result of the Explicitly Parallel Instruction Computing (EPIC) design philosophy, aimed at maximizing performance by using a close software-hardware ...

Intel revealed the first official details of its Tremont next-generation low-power x86 microarchitecture at the Linley Fall Processor Conference yesterday. Destined for use in Atom processors, this ...

It’s been a tough couple of years for the world’s top processor manufacturer, but the chipmaker’s new Core 2 microarchitecture and a renewed sense of paranoia promises to make Intel processors ...

ARM has announced that it is previewing a new microarchitecture. The DynamIQ microarchitecture is claimed to be the most flexible and versatile yet as it goes beyond ARM's big.LITTLE (introduced in ...

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 ...

Qualcomm's next chip can hit a whopping 5GHz clock speed.

Processor extensibility with an external hardware module like FPGA or DSP core isn’t a new concept. However, there are no existing hardware solutions that allow the addition of extensions when a ...

Penryn. Nehalem. Phenom. Fusion. Inside these four cryptic code names lies the future of computer desktop processing for 2008. Ultimately, however, it’s all about the epic, age-old battle between chip ...