The fundamental computer architecture in which the computer acts upon (executes) instructions temporarily stored internally in its memory (RAM). This flexibility is why computers are used for an ...

However, during the 2017 ACM Turing Award acceptance speech, John L. Hennessy and David A. Patterson described the present as the “golden age of computer architecture”.

Design and understanding of the computer system as a whole unit. Performance Evaluation and its role in computer system design; Instruction Set Architecture design, Datapath design and optimizations ...