Design and understanding of the computer system as a whole unit. Performance Evaluation and its role in computer system design; Instruction Set Architecture design, Datapath design and optimizations ...

UCSB's new general-purpose quantum computer has separate CPU, memory, and programming electronics.

Data prefetching has emerged as a critical approach to mitigate the performance bottlenecks imposed by memory access latencies in modern computer architectures. By predicting the data likely to be ...

Although many microprocessors such as IBM's POWER5 and AMD's Athlon 64 already had built-in memory controllers, Intel first made the move in 2008 with its Nehalem architecture, ...