Hello all, I have a question regarding CPU instruction sets. I have heard that the aging x86 instruction set is holding back progress, so to speak. So I was thinking about what would make a better, ...

SAN JOSE, Calif. — The Power.org group has announced updates to the instruction set used on the Power processor, providing new features for both servers and embedded systems. The upgrades also aim to ...

Forward-looking: After being beaten by AMD in introducing the first, truly 64-bit instruction set in the x86 CPU world, Intel is now trying to get ahead of its historical competitor by working on a ...

This paper presents an instruction set simulator of an 8-bit, MCS-51 compatible CPU core, and shows how to use it in embedded software development process; Method to control and debug CPU using ...

Most of us will be familiar at some level with the operation of a basic CPU, usually through exposure to microprocessors of the type that find their way into our projects. We can look at its internal ...

The idea that AMD's Zen 6 would support AVX-512 in some fashion has never really been in question, to tell the truth. With ...

We all think of the CPU as the "brains" of a computer, but what does that actually mean? What is going on inside with the billions of transistors that make your computer work? In this four-part series ...

Do you recall my Blog of a few days ago in which I posed the question What’s the minimum instruction set for a useful CPU?. Well, I only had a few moments to glance at this, but what I read seems to ...

There was a time when owning a computer meant you probably knew most or all of the instructions it could execute. Your modern PC, though, has a lot of instructions, many of them meant for specialized ...