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SoC design: When a network-on-chip meets cache coherency

Many people have heard the term cache coherency without fully understanding the considerations in the context of system-on-chip (SoC) devices, especially those using a network-on-chip (NoC). To ...
Semiconductor Engineering

A Primer On Last-Level Cache Memory For SoC Designs

System-on-chip (SoC) architects have a new memory technology, last level cache (LLC), to help overcome the design obstacles of bandwidth, latency and power consumption in megachips for advanced driver ...
Ars Technica

“Meltdown” and “Spectre:” Every modern processor has unfixable security flaws

Windows, Linux, and macOS have all received security patches that significantly alter how the operating systems handle virtual memory in order to protect against a hitherto undisclosed flaw. This is ...
TechSpot

Arm's Cortex-A78C is a powerful new processor core for laptops

Something to look forward to: Arm has just announced a new processor core, the Cortex-A78C. It's a revision of the Cortex-A78 mobile processor, but it doubles down on the features that on-the-go ...
HotHardware

Arm Cortex-A76 And Mali-G76 Architectures For Next-Gen Mobile Revealed

Page 3: Arm Cortex-A76 And Mali-G76 Architecture Summary Last week, Arm showed off the inner workings of its new Machine Learning Processor design, but that is not all that company had waiting in the ...