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

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, ...

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 ...

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 ...

Cache prefetching is what allows processors to have data and/or instructions ready for use in a fast local cache rather than having to wait for a fetch request to trickle through to system RAM and ...

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

Remember how, back in 2023, we reported on Intel's AVX10? Intel said that the new standard would be backward compatible with all of the AVX-512 instruction set extensions, and that at some point, the ...

China-based CPU designer Loongson Zongke Technology has pledged to build a homegrown CPU instruction ecosystem independent of Wintel and Android-ARM, and all its products will switch to the ...

In a previous post, we considered how you could create an optimized ISA for a domain-specific processor core by profiling software and experimenting with adding/removing instructions. Using the open ...