Like with the rest of the design, AMD's second-generation ray-tracing builds on the lessons taught by RDNA 2 to drastically improve efficiency in "heavy RT workloads." ...

It’s not traditional computer architecture. That’s pretty much a dead field,” said Christof Teuscher, a Portland State University professor who teaches microprocessor design and computer ...

ADTechnology, Korea’s largest semiconductor design house, has entered a development partnership with Ubitium, a German fabless semiconductor innovator, to bring its revolutionary UB410 microprocessor ...

Intel engineers recently submitted a few lines of code that contain a major change to the company's long-standing CPU ...

TL;DR Key Takeaways : RISC-V is an open standard instruction set architecture (ISA) that eliminates licensing fees, fostering innovation and reducing economic barriers in processor design. It is ...

The purpose of this article is to highlight the reason for Intel’s dramatic change in server processor design and the likely impact of the change. First up is the why. The x86 is a mature ...

Meteor Lake also includes changes to the manufacturing processes, introduces a reimagined "stacked" 3D design combining the parts of the CPU, and expands on the tiered high-power-vs.-low-power ...

An Instruction Set Architecture (ISA) defines the software interface through which for example a central processor unit (CPU) is controlled. Unlike early computer systems which didn’t define … ...

“Microprocessor architects are increasingly resorting to domain-specific customization in the quest for high-performance and energy-efficiency. As the systems grow in complexity, fine-tuning ...

Researchers at the UChicago Pritzker School of Molecular Engineering (UChicago PME) have realized a new design for a superconducting quantum processor, aiming at a potential architecture for the ...

Based on a parallel processing architecture, the eXtreme Processor is touted as the industry's most powerful 32-bit processor. Capable of sustainable peak performance in excess of 50 GOPS, the ...