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The Great CPU Stagnation
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Direct Memory Access computing machine RP2040
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AMD’s Zen 4, Part 2: Memory Subsystem and Conclusion
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Norvig's Law (2002)
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What's new in CPUs since the 80s? (2015)
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5.5 mm in 1.25 nanoseconds
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A Quadrillion Mainframes on Your Lap
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Megaprocessor – A micro-processor built large (2016)
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Did IBM Just Preview the Future of Caches?
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Memory Bandwidth
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The Sandia Cooler (2016)
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The free lunch is over: a fundamental turn toward concurrency in software (2005)
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Modern Microprocessors – A 90-Minute Guide (2001-2016)
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Counting cycles and instructions on the Apple M1 processor
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Multithreading for Game Engines
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The decline of computers as a general-purpose technology
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The CPUs of Spacecraft Computers in Space
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The Importance of End-to-End Thinking in System Design
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Teensy 4.1 Development Board
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Programming a 144-computer Chip to Minimize Power (2013)
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Performance variation in ‘identical’ processors
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Programmer’s Guide to Performance Analysis and Tuning on Modern CPUs
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ZipCPU – A small, lightweight, RISC soft core in Verilog
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Avoiding Instruction Cache Misses
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Performance Speed Limits
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For Better Computing, Liberate CPUs from Garbage Collection
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Computers without clocks (2002) [pdf]
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What has your microcode done for you lately?
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“It's done in hardware so it's cheap” (2012)
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How much bandwidth does the L2 have to give, anyway?
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IBM z14 Microprocessor and System Control Design
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Why intel processors draw more power than expected: TDP and Turbo explained
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Understanding L1 Terminal Fault aka Foreshadow: What You Need to Know
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Efficient Methods and Hardware for Deep Learning [pdf]
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Microsoft ports Windows 10, Linux to homegrown “E2” CPU design
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Machine learning can run on tiny, low-power chips
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Hennessy and Patterson win Turing Award
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Understanding CPU port contention
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Inventor Claims to Have Solved Floating Point Error Problem
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Microprocessor Design (2017)
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How Firefox Got Fast Again
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Mill CPU Inter-Process Communication
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A Peek Inside a 400G Cisco Network Chip
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The Mill CPU Architecture: Switches [video]
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ARM Pioneer Sophie Wilson Also Thinks Moore’s Law is Coming to an End
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Memory bandwidth
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An efficient power converter design reduces resting power consumption by 50%
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A Look inside Russian 28nm MIPS CPU – Baikal-T1
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What happened to clockless computer chips?
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10GHz at under 1V by 2005 - The future of Intel’s manufacturing processes [2000]
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1.1B Taxi Rides on Kdb+/q and 4 Xeon Phi CPUs
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What Happens to OO When Processors Are Free? (2015)
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An Inferno on the Head of a Pin
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Mill Computing in 2017
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Operation Costs in CPU Clock Cycles
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Megaprocessor – A micro-processor built large
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MIT Takes Multicore in a Different Direction
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The Tyranny of the Clock – Ivan Sutherland (2012) [pdf]
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Common definitions in chip design and production
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A 32nm 1000-Processor Array
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Computers Without Clocks – Ivan Sutherland (2002) [pdf]
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Modern Microprocessors – A 90 Minute Guide
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Moore's law hits the roof
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More efficient memory-management could enable chips with thousands of cores
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What's new in CPUs since the 80s and how does it affect programmers?
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A Look at HP's “The Machine”
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Megaprocessor
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Is the Mill CPU real? (2014)
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Implementing fork() on the Mill CPU (2014)
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What's New in CPUs Since the 80s and How Does It Affect Programmers?
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Do Small-RAM Devices Have a Future? (2011)
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How L1 and L2 CPU caches work, and why they’re an essential part of modern chips
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How does a computer chip work?
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Mill CPU Specification [video]
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Modern Microprocessors: A 90 Minute Guide
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CPU reliability – Linus Torvalds (2007)
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Why Registers Are Fast and RAM Is Slow
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Defective Heat Sinks Causing Garbage Gaming
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Grace Hopper to Programmers: Mind Your Nanoseconds
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When Will We See Collisions for SHA-1?
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PC obsolescence is obsolete
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Many Core processors: Everything You Know (about Parallel Programming) Is Wrong
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Why have CPUs been limited in frequency to around 3.5Ghz for so many years?
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Forth Inventor Chuck Moore's $20 144 core CPU now in full production
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The LMAX Architecture - 100K TPS at Less than 1ms Latency
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The fanless spinning heatsink: more efficient, and immune to dust and detritus
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Parallel programming is the focus of increasing interest
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The brain's 5-million core, 9 Hz computer
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Modern Microprocessors: A 90 Minute Guide
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The next operating system: building an OS for hundreds, thousands of cores
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Space Shuttle computer has 1MB of RAM
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Homemade CPU – from scratch
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Arithmetic in Computer Hardware
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Cray-1 vs Raspberry Pi
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Performance-Aware Programming Series
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Algorithms for Modern Hardware
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How Microchips Work
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How simultaneous multithreading works under the hood
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The LMAX Architecture (2011)
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