This chip maker mounted a challenge to Intel's Pentium range - so AMD bought it

AMD’s K6 range drew heavily from the Nx686 design and when launched in 1997 mounted a serious challenge to Intel's Pentium ...
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Microprocessor Design Space Exploration via Space Partitioning and Bayesian Optimization

Abstract: Design space exploration (DSE) has long been a very important topic in electronic design automation (EDA), but the growing diversity of applications and the complexity of integrated circuits ...
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Advances in Microprocessor Cache Architectures Over the Last 25 Years

Abstract: Over the last 25 years, the use of caches has advanced significantly in mainstream microprocessors to address the memory wall challenge. As we transformed microprocessors from single-core to ...