帕特森以幽默的方式开场，提到他妻子酷爱穿越时空的电影，并解释说年龄增长使人能够轻松地穿越回过去。他翻阅旧文件，重新发现了那些经典的塑料幻灯片——这些对许多年轻听众来说都很陌生——并用它们重现了四十多年前他在校园里做的演讲。

Prompted by the chipmaker's announcement of the SSE5 instruction-set extensions, Glaskowsky analyzes the ultimate outcome to this old controversy. Peter N. Glaskowsky is a computer architect in ...

在RISC联盟的高级会员名单中，英特尔的名字显然是最显眼的，作为曾经以一己之力击败RISC阵营的公司，英特尔主动加入这个联盟总有一种“黄鼠狼给鸡拜年”的感觉。不过，现在看来英特尔并非来搅局的，他们对于RISC-V架构有着自己的独特认知，并且正在将这个 ...

A new study comparing the Intel X86, the ARM and MIPS CPUs finds that microarchitecture is more important than instruction set architecture, RISC or CISC. If you are one of the few hardware or ...

Try to investigate the differences between the x86 and ARM processor families (or x86 and the Apple M1), and you'll see the acronyms CISC and RISC. It's a common way to frame the discussion, but not a ...

One of the features of Ars Premier 2.0 is subscriber-only content such as live chats and articles. Tonight, we’re announcing our next Premier 2.0 feature, a retrospective on the past ten years of RISC ...

Looks like a CISC chip to the outside world, but works more like a RISC chip inside (not entirely though). <BR><BR>Let me see if I can find a few links.<BR><BR>As far as I know, most AMD chips were ...

A computer processor uses a so-called Instruction Set Architecture to talk with the world outside of its own circuitry. This ISA consists of a number of instructions, which essentially define the ...

The Mac's best quality: software A Pioneer Press piece opines that the best part of the Macintosh platform is elegant, well-designed software. "So what does Macintosh have going for it? The most ...

SAN JOSE–Looking to alter the embedded chip landscape, startup MemoryLogix Inc. took the Microprocessor Forum last week to unveil the company and disclose the development of a “586-based ...