A CPU, or Central Processing Unit, is often called the brain of a computer, but what exactly does it do? In this video, we ...

Pioneers of computer architecture receive ACM Turing Award Contributions to microprocessors helped usher in mobile and IoT revolutions Grant and Award Announcement Association for Computing Machinery ...

Prior to the existence of the CPU/GPU architecture, microprocessors had blitters – logic blocks that rapidly modified data within the memory, capable of copying large swathes of data in parallel ...

The reason why a 40 year old microprocessor is still covered in computer architecture text books instead of computer history is a bit convoluted.

Computer engineers have developed a new AI method for accurately predicting the power consumption of any type of computer processor more than a trillion times per second while barely using any ...

Armonk, NY and Tokyo, August 25, 2005 — IBM, Sony, Sony Computer Entertainment Inc., (Sony and SCE together referred to as “Sony Group”) and Toshiba today announced the release of key documents that ...

COURSE OBJECTIVES: When a student completes this course, s/he should be able to: • Understand the architecture of a basic computer system and its components, and the role of performance in designing ...

"This new architecture builds upon the unrivalled low power and multiprocessing capabilities of the ARM Cortex-A9 processor core," said Loris Valenti, general manager of ST's Computer Systems SoC ...

Soft Machines Inc., a Silicon Valley-based semiconductor startup company, today announced the Soft Machines VISC™ architecture. The VISC architecture is a breakthrough in microprocessor ...

The tech giants threw their weight behind this new microprocessor architecture in hopes of breaking the stranglehold that Intel and Microsoft had over the personal-computer market.