One of the greatest challenges facing the designers of many-core processors is resource contention. The chart below visually lays out the problem of resource contention, but for most of us the idea is ...

Until recently, an explanation of memory management would have amounted to a description of a computer’s virtual memory implementation. Now however, memory management encompasses organizing frequently ...

LLC, positioned between external memory and internal subsystems, stores frequently accessed data close to compute resources.

The processors in today’s computers have grown tremendously in performance, capabilities and complexity over the past decade. Clock speed has skyrocketed, and size has dwindled, even as the number of ...

SAN JOSE, Calif. — Having long confronted memory's growing culpability in performance bottlenecks, microprocessor designers came en masse to the Microprocessor Forum this past week to hash out ways to ...