New posts in cpu-architecture

What is a cache hit and a cache miss? Why would context-switching cause cache miss?

How is CPU usage calculated?

What do the terms "asynchronous" and "synchronous" mean, with respect to the definition of an interrupt?

How does Windows 2008 R2 run 32-bit applications?

Why can't Windows 7 be installed on a ARM processor based system?

How to detect AWS EC2 architecture from inside?

Out-of-order execution vs. speculative execution

Does an x86 CPU reorder instructions?

What are stalled-cycles-frontend and stalled-cycles-backend in 'perf stat' result?

How to use Fused Multiply-Add (FMA) instructions with SSE/AVX

Will dual CPU servers run with one failed?

Obtaining the CPU L2 shared memory percentual of usage on Linux machine

what is a store buffer?

Why is SRAM faster than DRAM?

Why is a conditional move not vulnerable for Branch Prediction Failure?

Architecture - 32-bit handling 64-bit instructions

x86 registers: MBR/MDR and instruction registers

Undefined symbols for architecture x86_64 on Xcode 6.1

atomic operation cost

Can one core perform several operations/instructions during one tick (because core has different execution units)?