All in on MatMul? Don’t Put All Your Tensors in One Basket!

Matrix multiplication dominates AI hardware and research. Betting everything on MatMul risks an innovation monoculture — it’s time to diversify our compute bets.

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To Measure is To Know: Breaking Down Datacenter Power Consumption

Since publishing my piece on prioritizing energy accounting in data centers back in June, there’s been a steady wave of media coverage...

Seventh Annual Undergraduate Mentoring Workshop (uArch 2025)

The 7th annual Undergraduate Architecture Mentoring (uArch) Workshop took place alongside the International Symposium of Computer...

Computer Architecture Lessons from the Kitchen

I am a COMPUTER ARCHITECT, which means I design computers. I was trained at a great school (UW-Madison), and I worked in industry (Intel)...

Ethical and Moral Fraying due to Intellectual Conflicts in Paper Reviews

Intellectually-conflicted reviews are an ethical and moral danger for the reviewers, result in repeated or permanent rejection of good papers, seriously hurt the careers of the authors, stymie progress in our field, but remain unrecognized by our review process.

Disclaimer: These posts are written by individual contributors to share their thoughts on the Computer Architecture Today blog for the benefit of the community. Any views or opinions represented in this blog are personal, belong solely to the blog author and do not represent those of ACM SIGARCH or its parent organization, ACM.

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May 13, 2026 in Atlanta, GA, USA
Call for Papers: FCCM 2026
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November 3, 2025 in Irvine, CA, USA
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