Choosing the right processor determines how well your PC can keep up with the demands of modern applications and games.

Input comes in, you process it, and you produce output. Sure, a call to strcpy might work better on a modern CPU than on an older one, but your basic algorithms are the same. But what if there ...

but it's not the first place you'd think of for buying expensive computer parts. In fact, quite the contrary. You might have ...

You can think of modern CPU cores as the "accelerator of last resort," meaning they are designed to run code that's hard to parallelize, offload, or otherwise improve. If you've got a big ...

This course examines fundamental issues and design trade-offs in modern processor architectures. We will discuss some of the constraints that limit the design and programmability of modern processors, ...