As I’m sure many of you know, x86 architecture has been around for quite some time. It has its roots in Intel’s early 8086 processor, the first in the family. Indeed, even the original 8086 ...

Above is a visual representation of the new mesh architecture. In the diagram, processor cores, on-chip cache banks, memory controllers, and I/O controllers are organized in rows and columns.

A shared channel that transmits data one bit after the other over a single wire or fiber; for example, Ethernet uses a serial bus architecture. The I/O bus from the CPU to the peripherals is a ...

Featuring a dedicated three-bus architecture, the SH7780 employs a 32-bit DDR-SDRAM bus at 160 MHz, a 32-bit bus for PCI-bus connections, and a 32-bit local bus at 100 MHz for connecting to flash ...

That held out to us reporters the promise of a really juicy bus war, parallel to the ones that raged through the industry back when microprocessors and board-level computers were changing everything.

New CPU architectures don't come along very often -- which is why more details on the Harmony Unified Processing Architecture being built by Chinese developer ICube are so interesting ...

On AMD’s drawing board for more than a year, HyperTransport Technology is a packet-based, uni-directional system bus that can deliver 24 times faster performance than current bus technologies ...

The traditional H&P (COaD) is a safe bet for any first or second course in computer architecture. I haven't spent more than a few minutes with CA but I can tell you that neither book is going to ...

The other key was the shared memory itself. Logically, this was a 20-Gbyte/s,five-port switch linking the inter-CPU bus, the main memory bus and three different off-chip buses. Physically, it was ...

The proposed x86S CPU architecture from Intel would ditch support for 32-bit apps and operating systems entirely in favor of 64-bit software, but it could support older apps with virtualization.