We recently looked at the origins of the integrated circuit (IC) and the calculator, which was the IC’s first killer app, but a surprise twist is that the calculator played a big part in the invention ...

CPU architectures in a single system, whether that is a single system-on-chip (SoC) or a larger electronics platform ...

NEW YORK, NY, March 21, 2018 - ACM, the Association for Computing Machinery, today named John L. Hennessy, former President of Stanford University, and David A. Patterson, retired Professor of the ...

There are basically two ways to compute data. The first is with a DSP, a chip that performs very specialized functions on a limited set of data. These are very cheap, have amazing performance per watt ...

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 ...

STMicroelectronics has released details of a new architecture which it says will be the backbone for new members of its Structured Processor Enhanced Architecture, or SPEAr, family of embedded ...

Micron is challenging conventional computer architectures conceived decades ago with Automata, a highly parallel processor that can change its behavior to process the task at hand. The Automata ...

IBM announced new processors that it said will help it build a “fault-tolerant quantum computer” by the end of the decade.

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 ...