Modern Microprocessors - A 90 Minute Guide!

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In particular, you might not be aware of some key topics that developed rapidly in recent times... pipelining (superscalar, OoO, VLIW, branch prediction, predication) multi-core & simultaneous multithreading (SMT, hyper-threading) SIMD vector instructions (MMX/SSE/AVX, AltiVec) caches and the memory hierarchy Fear not! This article will get you up to speed fast. In no time you'll be discussing the finer points of in-order vs out-of-order, hyper-threading, multi-core and cache organization like a pro.
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