Hello all, I have a question regarding CPU instruction sets. I have heard that the aging x86 instruction set is holding back progress, so to speak. So I was thinking about what would make a better, ...

SAN JOSE, Calif. — The Power.org group has announced updates to the instruction set used on the Power processor, providing new features for both servers and embedded systems. The upgrades also aim to ...

The idea that AMD's Zen 6 would support AVX-512 in some fashion has never really been in question, to tell the truth. With ...

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

Most of us will be familiar at some level with the operation of a basic CPU, usually through exposure to microprocessors of the type that find their way into our projects. We can look at its internal ...

The registers inside the CPU, the machine code instruction set, and the ways in which the instructions interact with the registers and status flags are all intertwined. As you may recall, one of my ...

Chinese chip maker Loongson used to make processors based on MIPS architecture, but MIPS isn’t what it used to be and the company that developed the technology has even pivoted to making chips using ...

Qualcomm announced Thursday that it’s bringing the custom, Arm-compatible CPU used for its Snapdragon X Series chips to a new ...

We all think of the CPU as the "brains" of a computer, but what does that actually mean? What is going on inside with the billions of transistors that make your computer work? In this four-part series ...

Some programs and games require a feature called AVX to function properly. AVX stands for Advanced Vector Extensions, a set ...

AMD provided a sneak peek at some of its CPU and GPU roadmaps during presentations made for financial analysts on Tuesday.