If instruction sets didn't matter, processors would be cheaper and designers would have more options. That's why one startup's efforts are so intriguing. Every microprocessor is different, in part ...

Custom instruction-set architectures, or custom ISA extensions ... You can start your work with a full-blown RISC-V-compliant processor and add custom ISA extensions according to your needs, or you ...

The Intel 8088 (and its big brother 8086) processor was among the first microprocessors to implement (instruction) prefetching in hardware, which [Ken Shirriff] has analyzed based on die images ...

Thumb-2 technology adds about 130 additional instructions to Thumb. The added functionality removes the need to switch between ARM and Thumb modes in order to service interrupts, and gives access to ...

IIT Madras and ISRO have collaboratively developed the SHAKTI microprocessor for space applications. This indigenous chip, based on RISC-V architecture and backed by the Ministry of Electronics, aims ...