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Intel Explores Transition to 64-Bit-Only X86S Architecture

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Intel mulls cutting 16 and 32-bit support, booting straight into 64-bit mode

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Envisioning a Simplified Intel Architecture

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First ever 64-bit version of Windows rediscovered and a C compiler for it too

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Windows 2000 64-bit for Alpha AXP

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ARM or x86? ISA Doesn’t Matter (2021)

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Of Sun Ray laptops, MIPS and getting root on them

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AMD Killed the Itanium (2005)

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Bulldozer, AMD’s Crash Modernization: Front End and Execution Engine

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The Talos II, Blackbird POWER9 systems support tagged memory

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AMD’s Athlon 64: Getting the Basics Right

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Linear Address Spaces: Unsafe at any speed

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Intel’s Netburst: Failure Is a Foundation for Success

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Italian CPU – The Genesys B52 MMX

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Xbox 360 Architecture

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The Worst CPUs Ever Made (2021)

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The x86 architecture is the weirdo (2004)

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Intel deprecates SGX on Core series processors

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The prospects for 128 bit processors (1995)

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A Crash Course in Modern Hardware (2010)

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Playstation 3 Architecture

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The Itanic Has Sunk

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Architecture of the Playstation

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The Rise, Fall and Revival of AMD (2020)

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Architecture of Consoles

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Low-level details of the Zen 2 microarchitecture [pdf]

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Xbox Architecture

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The PowerPC Compiler Writer's Guide (1996) [pdf]

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Transmeta Crusoe

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Playstation Architecture: A Practical Analysis

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How much better was DEC Alpha than contemporary x86?

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What is wrong with all those AArch64 desktops?

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The IBM Pentium 4 64-Bit CPU

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Godson-3: A Scalable Multicore RISC Processor with x86 Emulation (2009)

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An optimization guide for assembly programmers and compiler makers (2018) [pdf]

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A New Golden Age for Computer Architecture

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What's worked in Computer Science (2015)

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The Man Behind AMD's Zen Microarchitecture: Jim Keller

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Is the x86 Architecture Sustainable?

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The Microarchitecture of Intel, AMD and VIA CPUs [pdf]

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How enthusiasts designed a powerful desktop PC with an ARM processor

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Stratus: Servers that won’t quit – The 24 year running computer

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Usenet Computer YArchive

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Why didn't Larrabee fail?

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64-bit ARM desktop hardware?

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Assessing IBM's POWER8, Part 1: A Low Level Look at Little Endian

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How AMD Won, Then Lost

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What's Worked in Computer Science

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CPU DB, a database of processors for researchers and hobbyists

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AMD's Jaguar Microarchitecture

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Advanced Computer Architecture Reading List

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An Inconvenient Truth: Intel Larrabee story revealed

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When teaching computer architecture, why are universities using obscure CPUs?

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6th generation x86 CPU Comparisons

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Classic Usenet posts on computer architecture, operating systems and languages

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