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 ...
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 ...
SiliconANGLE

Arm unveils Armv9 architecture for its next generation of processor chips

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 ...
mccormick.northwestern.edu

COMP_ENG 456: Modern Topics in Computer Architecture

This course examines fundamental issues and design trade-offs in modern processor architectures. We will discuss some of the constraints that limit the design and programmability of modern processors, ...
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 ...
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 ...
Electronic Design

AMD Rolls Out Desktop CPU Family With Zen 3 Architecture

With the Zen 3 CPU architecture, AMD said the Ryzen 5000 series has the highest single-threaded performance of any desktop processor on the market, ideal for high-end personal computers used for ...
Semiconductor Engineering

Computer Architecture Extending The Von Neumann Model With A Dedicated Reasoning Unit For Native Artificial General Intelligence (TU Munich, Pace U.)

A new technical paper titled “Augmenting Von Neumann’s Architecture for an Intelligent Future” was published by researchers at TU Munich and Pace University. “This work presents a novel computer ...
TechSpot

Intel's 80286 CPU celebrates 44 years of x86 history

Recap: Intel introduced its first x86 processor architecture in 1978 with the 8086 microprocessor. A few years later, the company made history again with the 80286 – a CPU so successful that it ...
TechSpot

Intel proposes the x86-S architecture for a simpler, more efficient CPU instruction set

Forward-looking: After being beaten by AMD in introducing the first, truly 64-bit instruction set in the x86 CPU world, Intel is now trying to get ahead of its historical competitor by working on a ...

Efficient Computer Raises $60 Million to Advance Energy-Efficient General-Purpose Processors for AI

Efficient Computer, the company building the world's most energy-efficient general-purpose processors, today announced a $60 million Series A funding round led by Triatomic Capital with participation ...