Artificial intelligence (AI) is making its presence felt everywhere these days, from the data centers at the Internet’s core to sensors and handheld devices like smartphones at the Internet’s edge and ...

In the eighties, computer processors became faster and faster, while memory access times stagnated and hindered additional performance increases. Something had to be done to speed up memory access and ...

'Ampere' is a semiconductor company founded in 2018 by former Intel president Renee James and others. Enters the ARM-based server processor market. TSMC 's 7nm process and has 80 ARMv8.2 + cores. Each ...

AMBA 4 ACE adds system-level coherency support to the AMBA 4 specifications. By enabling cache coherency between the high- performance ARM Cortex-A15 MPCore processor and software-compatible high- ...

With multithreaded applications, there are situations where it is unavoidable or desirable to wait for other threads. Implementing such wait instruction sequences correctly is important for both ...