[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 ...

“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 ...

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 ...

Researchers at North Carolina State University have developed a new AI-assisted tool that helps computer architects boost ...

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 ...

The computer system aboard the current Artemis II lunar space mission is from a different world that the one from the Apollo ...

Data prefetching has emerged as a critical approach to mitigate the performance bottlenecks imposed by memory access latencies in modern computer architectures. By predicting the data likely to be ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...