by Toru Koizumi, Ryota Shioya, Hidetsugu Irie on Apr 2, 2025 | Tags: Architecture, CPU, gpu, ISA Design
CPU cores have become significantly wider over the past decade. Ten years ago, the highest-performance CPUs could decode only up to four instructions simultaneously and execute up to eight instructions. However, top-tier CPUs released in recent years have grown to...
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by David Patterson and Andrew Waterman on Sep 18, 2017 | Tags: Architecture, CPU, ISA, Parallelism
In the process of writing a short introduction to RISC-V, we compared RISC-V vector code to SIMD. We were struck by the insidiousness of the SIMD instruction extensions of ARM, MIPS, and x86. We decided to share those insights in this blog, based on Chapter 8 of our...
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