Given the accuracy of Moore’s Law to the development of integrated circuits over the years, one would think that our present day period is no different from the past decades in terms of computer ...

Data prefetching has emerged as a critical approach to mitigate the performance bottlenecks imposed by memory access latencies in modern computer architectures. By predicting the data likely to be ...

One of the biggest impacts of Apple's switch from Intel to its own M-series silicon -- debuting with the M1 in the 2020 ...

This course examines fundamental issues and design trade-offs in modern processor architectures. We will discuss some of the constraints that limit the design and programmability of modern processors, ...

How much energy is consumed each time we upload an image to social media, which relies on data centers and cloud storage? Data centers currently account for about one percent of global energy ...

A research team at the Jülich Supercomputing Center, together with experts from NVIDIA, has set a new record in quantum ...

I was wondering if anyone could give their thoughts on the books <I>Computer Organization and Design</I> by David Patterson and John Hennessy and <I>Computer Architecture</I> by John ...

Liz Simmons is an education staff writer at Forbes Advisor. She has written about higher education and career development for various online publications since 2016. She earned a master’s degree in ...