In part 1, we explained the rationale for using caches and showed how caches work. This week we explain how to minimize cache misses, giving some practical examples. As noted in part 1, cache misses ...

“A long battery life is a first-class design objective for mobile devices, and main memory accounts for a major portion of total energy consumption. Moreover, the energy consumption from memory is ...

In the intricate world of modern chip architectures, the “memory wall” – the limitations posed by external DRAM accesses on performance and power consumption growing slower than the ability to compute ...

CPUs based on AMD’s new Zen 4 architecture won’t arrive until this fall, but the company is already dropping hints about what comes next. As reported by AnandTech, AMD is planning a new Zen 5 ...

AMD just released its flagship Ryzen 9 9950X3D processor, a 16-core, 32-thread beast of a CPU that leverages its stacked cache architecture and high clock speeds for improved gaming performance. This ...