Semiconductor Engineering

Programming Processors In Heterogeneous Architectures

Programming processors is becoming more complicated as more and different types of processing elements are included in the same architecture. While systems architects may revel in the number of ...
Android Authority

Arm vs x86: Instruction sets, architecture, and all key differences explained

The Android operating system is built to run on three different types of processor architecture: Arm, Intel x86, and MIPS. The former is today’s ubiquitous architecture after Intel abandoned its ...
Forbes

Sapphire Rapids Is A Critical Turning Point For Intel

With the launch of the 4 th generation of Intel Xeon Scalable processors and the Xeon CPU Max series, which were codenamed Sapphire Rapids, Intel is charting a new server architecture path for the ...
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Researchers want to embrace Arm's celebrated paradigm for a universal generative AI processor; a puzzling MEGA.mini core architecture

At February 2025's International Solid-State Circuits Conference (ISSCC), researchers unveiled a new MEGA.mini architecture. Inspired by Arm’s celebrated "big.LITTLE" paradigm, this universal ...
Semiconductor Engineering

Will New Processor Architectures Raise Energy Efficiency?

Data centers continue to heat up as new processors consume more energy than ever before. Cooling is the primary weapon against the heat these processors generate, but it won’t be able to keep up ...