DURHAM – Computer engineers at Duke University 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 ...

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How to identify and fix execution bugs like Spectre and Meltdown has been a burning topic among microprocessor buffs this year. At Hot Chips, one of the industry’s premier academic conferences on ...

The first installment of this series was an overview of memory barriers, why they are needed in SMP kernels and how the Linux kernel handles them [August 2005]. This installment gives an overview of ...

If you ripped the covers off whatever device you're reading this on, the chip-packed boards beneath will likely be something of a mystery. In an effort to make it easier to understand how these ...

Intel celebrates the 50th anniversary of the Intel® 4004, the world’s first commercially available microprocessor. With its launch in November 1971, the 4004 paved the path for modern microprocessor ...

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 ...