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 ...
TOKYO — Toshiba Corp. today announced two new 32-bit complex-instruction set computer (CISC) microcontrollers with integrated 128-kilobytes of ROM and 6-Kbytes of RAM. The MCUs are the industry's ...
It’s easy to look at the benchmark numbers of Apple’s home-grown processor with wide, astonished eyes—and some heart-felt expletives, too. The M1 is no doubt impressive enough to capture the interest ...
The processor we will be considering in this tutorial is the MIPS processor. The MIPS processor, designed in 1984 by researchers at Stanford University, is a RISC (Reduced Instruction Set Computer) ...
Indeed, most processors today — RISC or CISC — are about three-quarters cache, with a little CPU core lurking in one corner of the chip. ARM can get away with slashing its transistor budget because it ...
Europe is planning a co-ordinated response to Google’s data collection practices, says the Wall Street Journal. The French Commission Nationale de l’Informatique et de Libertes (CNIL) says it, and ...