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 ...

Computers’ amazing abilities to entertain people, help them work, and even respond to voice commands are, at their heart, the results of decades of technological development and innovation in ...

Forbes contributors publish independent expert analyses and insights. Jim is a principal analyst and partner at TIRIAS Research. Discussions about CPUs often frame one instruction set architecture ...

Forbes contributors publish independent expert analyses and insights. I write about disruptive companies, technologies and usage models. Intel CEO Pat Gelsinger and AMD CEO Lisa Su have joined forces ...

Adding network services in a secure fashion to today's network infrastructure requires deploying a large number of separate devices. These can include a Layer 4+ switch, an anti-spam gateway, firewall ...

Microprocessors are wondrous devices: They integrate the brain of a computer onto a single electronic component. The computing power that once required a room full of equipment now fits onto a ...

AMD’s Heterogeneous System Architecture (HSA) hardware framework provides Heterogeneous Uniform Memory Access (hUMA) to CPUs and GPUs (Fig. 1). It radically changes the way CPUs and GPUs will interact ...

Processor vendors are starting to emphasize microarchitectural improvements and data movement over process node scaling, setting the stage for much bigger performance gains in devices that narrowly ...

Every processor ever built contains an underlying “architecture,” representing deep-seated characteristics that transcend any single CPU core or physical design. This architecture defines how a ...

Primarion has been awarded a patent for its unique, digitally precise power architecture by the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office (U.S. Patent No. 6,429,630). Primarion has been awarded a patent for ...

An Instruction Set Architecture (ISA) defines the software interface through which for example a central processor unit (CPU) is controlled. Unlike early computer systems which didn’t define a ...