Nuvacore WarpCore CPU startup, led by Apple M-series chip architects, disclosed its Core First strategy: building the processor execution engine before selecting an instruction set. IBM's dual-ISA ...

In its continued effort to reduce reliance on foreign technologies (particularly U.S.-made), China has been mostly focusing on getting up to speed with the hardware production facilities. The chip ...

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, ...

A few months ago, Loongson was finalizing China’s first proprietary CPU instruction set dubbed LoongArch, and now the company is launching the first CPU models that include the new microcode. The ...

Forward-looking: After being beaten by AMD in introducing the first, truly 64-bit instruction set in the x86 CPU world, Intel is now trying to get ahead of its historical competitor by working on a ...

In computer science, an instruction set architecture (ISA) is an abstract model of a computer. It’s also referred to as architecture or computer architecture. Moreover, a central processing unit (CPU) ...

Most of us will be familiar at some level with the operation of a basic CPU, usually through exposure to microprocessors of the type that find their way into our projects. We can look at its internal ...

You might call it the brains of the operation.

Why it matters: Intel is gearing up for what the company considers the "next major step" in the evolution of the original x86 instruction set architecture (ISA). The Santa Clara corporation is ...

I suppose the holy grail would be to bootstrap your custom CPU into a full-blown Linux system. That’s a big enough job that I haven’t done it. Although you might be more productive than I am, you ...

I'm still busily beavering away on the idea of my Heath Robinson Rube Goldberg mixed-technology computer (relays, vacuum tubes, transistors, fluidic logic, etc.). As you'll see if you visit the above ...