
Archive of posts tagged: Research


Persistent Memory – A New Hope
The Cancellation of the Intel Optane Product Line Recently, Intel announced the cancellation of all Optane products, including both Optane SSDs and Optane Persistent Memory. The news came all of a sudden but was not totally unexpected, as Micron sold the 3D XPoint fab...
Picking Your Research Direction: Trade-offs You Should Consider
Modern research in computer architecture has been developed far beyond the conventional textbook topics of processor microarchitectures and memory hierarchies, now expanding to a much more diverse range of novel areas. Computer architects can explore many promising...
The Microarchitecture Research Wall and its Renaissance
The day is April 14, 2023. The MICRO deadline is just a few hours away, and micro-architects are skeptical about their MICRO submissions. Why? There are only a few sessions on microarchitecture from MICRO 2018 to MICRO 2022. Is this the end of microarchitecture...