Semiconductor Engineering

Microarchitecture Vulnerabilities: Uncovering The Root Cause Weaknesses

In early 2018, the tech industry was shocked by the discovery of hardware microarchitecture vulnerabilities that bypassed decades of work put into software and application security. Meltdown and ...
Circuit Digest

Alibaba Unveiled XuanTie C950: High-Performance RISC-V Core for Edge AI

Alibaba has introduced the XuanTie C950, a high-performance 64-bit RISC-V processor core designed for demanding workloads ...
Nature

Performance Prediction and Design Space Exploration in Microarchitecture

Performance prediction and design space exploration have become vital methodologies in modern computer architecture, underpinning the efficient design and optimisation of microarchitectural ...
CNX Software

Alibaba XuanTie C950 – A powerful, RVA23-compliant 64-bit RISC-V core for Edge AI computing

Alibaba has introduced the XuanTie C950 high-performance, 64-bit multi-core CPU IP with an out-of-order superscalar microarchitecture, RVA23 profile ...
Hackaday

Checking In On The ISA Wars And Its Impact On CPU Architectures

An Instruction Set Architecture (ISA) defines the software interface through which for example a central processor unit (CPU) is controlled. Unlike early computer systems which didn’t define a ...