Hackaday

The Inner Workings Of The Intel 8086’s Arithmetic Logic Unit

In the 1970s CPUs still had wildly different approaches to basic features, with the Intel 8086 being one of them. Whereas the 6502 used separate circuits for operations, and the Intel 8085 a clump ...
Electronic Design

How a Dumb Move Spawned the x86 and Kickstarted the PC Revolution

The history of Intel’s 8008 processor. Insight into the x86 architecture. Lasting legacy with modern applications. Computer Terminal Corporation (now defunct Datapoint) launched the DataPoint 3300 ...
IEEE

IBM Telum II Microprocessor: 5.5 GHz With On-Die AI and Data Processing, and Design–Technology Co-Optimizations for Power, Area, and Reliability

Abstract: The IBM Telum II microprocessor features eight cores operating at a base frequency of 5.5 GHz, ten 36-MB L2 caches achieving 3.6-ns access latency, a 360-MB virtual L3 cache, and a new ...
IEEE

Soft-Error Detection and Execution Observation for ARM Microprocessors

Abstract: We present an intellectual property (IP) called a trace real-time analyzer to check processor errors under radiation (TRACER) designed to detect errors and observe the behavior of advanced ...
The Fence Post

Growing microprocessors instead of wheat?

A data center that may soon be formally proposed in northeastern Colorado shocks me in its potential demand for electricity. A behemoth. The data center may require up to two gigawatts of electricity, ...