I've microbenchmarked Intel's Arc B390 to see what makes it so good

And oh boy, is it's cache system good.
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Snopsys enters definitive agreement with GlobalFoundries for sale of processor IP solutions business

Transaction underscores Synopsys' commitment to disciplined portfolio management, while capturing highest growth engineering ...

AMD's next-gen Zen 6 CPUs will adopt Intel's 'FRED' interrupt handling and could be a major architectural leap

Just bear in mind that Intel's Panther Lake has a bit of FRED, too.

Intel's 80286 CPU celebrates 44 years of x86 history

Intel released the 80286 processor on February 1, 1982, making the CPU 44 years old. According to the company, the 16-bit chip represented a significant evolution ...

AMD's Zen 6 will adopt Intel's FRED to modernize x86 interrupt handling

Every time a computer receives a network packet, completes a disk write, or a user moves the mouse, the processor handles an event known as an ...
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Chinese RISC-V Chipmaker SpacemiT Launches K3 AI CPU, Highlighting the Rise of Open-Source Hardware in Intelligent Computing

The K3 chip is the result of more than 1,200 days of development. According to the company, it is among the first mass-production-ready RISC-V AI CPUs compliant with the RVA23 specification. It also ...
IEEE

FloppyFloat: An Open Source Floating Point Library for Instruction Set Simulators

Abstract: Instruction Set Simulators (ISSs) are important software tools that facilitate the simulation of arbitrary compute systems. One of the most challenging aspects of ISS development is the ...
IEEE

Microprocessor Instruction Design Tool for RISC-V Architecture

Abstract: We have been developing MEIMAT (MEiji Microprocessor Architecture Design Tools). The MEIMAT is essentially designed to be able to represent any instruction of various processors by the ...