Intel released a new CPU model this week, the Intel Core i9 7900X, which is the latest model to feature a new cache architecture that hardware experts believe it will make exploitation of side-channel ...

SAN MATEO, Calif. — Bolting cache memory directly onto a processor core is a time-tested way to boost performance, but some microprocessor vendors will drop hints at this week's Embedded Processor ...

Intel’s upcoming Nova Lake processor introduces a different approach to its cache architecture by having two performance cores share a 4MB L2 cache. This change is a departure from the current Arrow ...

One of the key challenges in chip multi-processing is to provide a programming model that manages cache coherency in a transparent and efficient way. A large number of applications designed for ...

In the early days of computing, everything ran quite a bit slower than what we see today. This was not only because the computers' central processing units – CPUs – were slow, but also because ...

In advance of the launch of the Intel® Xeon® Scalable Processor platform – Intel’s biggest data center platform advancement in this decade – CPU architect Akhilesh Kumar shares his perspective on ...