Note: This article was written prior to the official announcement, it will be updated in more detail after Intel’s announcement....
Software is a generic term to describe the applications that a general-purpose processor can execute. A program is similar to...
Let’s summarize what we’ve been going through. About processors: Originally, processors had single processing units (i.e. single core processors) Eventually...
Allow me to start this episode by clarifying another concept, namely that of mutual exclusion. Mutual exclusion is the idea...
Since the Zen architecture was launched, we have seen a steady increase in core counts across the whole range of...
What is thread synchronization, when is it useful and how to achieve it? Thread synchronization is a mechanism by which...
Graphics processors exist in all gaming computers, but how do they really work?
Now let’s have a look at how single-threaded and multi-threaded software works, and what are the differences. For this, we...
Whether you’re celebrating or not, I wish Happy Holidays to all of you! Let’s apply what we’ve learned so far,...
So we have seen that nowadays operating systems are multi-tasking, which means that they are able to run multiple processes...
Intel rumored to hire employees from Centaur, maker of "Haswell level" x86 CPUs with AVX-512 support, from VIA Technologies for $125 million dollars