I recently launched a general survey of CPU industry. The main purpose was to understand the overall trend where the microprocessor industry is heading. Last month, the population of this planet just reached 7 billion with a growth rate of 1 billion every 12 years. The forecast of the PC market shows the demand is slowing down, so, where and how do people use computing power? The recent computer technology seems heading toward two ends : cloud computing and more powerful personal computing. The later development, especially those for smart phones, tablets, seems to have great potential to take over some market shares of the traditional PC and laptop computing.
This survey is divided as follows:
This survey is divided as follows:
- Part-I (General): General survey through reviewing the topics of reputable journals, reports for past three years.
- Part-II (Academia): General survey through reviewing the reputable Universities' research focus
- Part-III (Industry): Deeper study of the product roadmaps of major companies that develop microprocessor products.
- Part-IV (Government Funding): Interesting enough, quite some giants started out with the support of government funding. Government looks at the need in next decade and developments needed for them. How can we not pay an eye do what the government sees?
Summary (Part-I Survey)
- 3-D Tri-gate Transistor: According to Intel's Tick-Tock model, 2011 is the year the semiconductor industry migrates to 22nm process. One noticeable development is that Intel commercializes the "Ivy Bridge" CPU using Tri-gate transistor. It was claimed that the new tranistor can achieve 33% performance gain and saves more than 50% in power consumption. The 3D stacking microprocessor technology also receives some attentions.
- Multi-Core and Large-Scale Systems: the multi-core and large-scale systems with many cores SoCs are getting popular since 2006. More and more commercial products hit the market after 2007. ARM and MIPS architectures follow the same trend and are vigorously establishing their position in multi-core and multi-threading domain. Some SoC chips with multi-core ARMs were seen in the past two years. The studies and techniques of cache coherence, memory consistency and interconnects for muti-core systems attracted many attentions, especially for the integration for hetrogenous architecture and leveraging existing IPs.
- Video/Graphics: as the trend of consumer electronics become more powerful, the demand of video/graphics computing rises. The discussion of "GPU v.s. CPU" becomes a hot topic. More video processing logic/algorithms or supporting hardware are integrated into the microprocessor design, e.g. SIMD instructions, Vector extension, Video codecs are embedded in Intel's Ivy Bridge micro-architecture (2012).
This article is the Part-I of the survey for recent microprocessor R&D trends. The journal and report used for this study are:
- IEEE Micro: the "IEEE Micro" fucus on the research and trend of computer and peripherals. It publishes bi-monthly issues (total 6 per year). Each year, it follows some traditions - the first issue of the year selects the "top-picks" for the research papers of previous year. The second issue usually reviews the HotChip topics/papers, which provides more connections to the industrial CPU projects. For the rest issues of the year, the papers are selected for the major hot topics of the year.
- Microprocessor Report: the MPR has been a leading technical publication of the CPU industry. It publishes weekly and balances the topics between company focus, development and technology trends. Compared to IEEE MIcro, it provides more insights of the companies of CPU industry where they are heading.
This study intends to explore the overall trends of recent microprocessor developments. Readers are encouraged to dive into the original publications for more details from the two institute listed above.
- IEEE Micro (2009-2011)
| Date | Category | Tile |
| 2011 | ||
| Sep-11 | GPU/Hetrogeneous | CPUs and GPUs: Who Owns the Future? |
| CPUs, GPUs, and Hybrid Computing | ||
| Multi-GPU DGEMM and High Performance Linpack on Highly Energy-Efficient Clusters | ||
| Implementing Domain-Specific Languages for Heterogeneous Parallel Computing | ||
| Medical Ultrasound Imaging: To GPU or Not to GPU? | ||
| Performance Implications of Nonuniform Device Topologies in Scalable Heterogeneous Architectures | ||
| Jul-11 | Big Chips | Big Chips |
| Toward Dark Silicon in Servers | ||
| Scaling with Design Constraints: Predicting the Future of Big Chips | ||
| Rigel: A 1,024-Core Single-Chip Accelerator Architecture | ||
| MOPED: Accelerating Data Communication on Future CMPs | ||
| Physical Synthesis with Clock-Network Optimization for Large Systems on Chips | ||
| Attaining Single-Chip, High-Performance Computing through 3D Systems with Active Cooling | ||
| May-11 | Very Large Scale | Very Large-Scale Systems and Some History |
| Systems for Very Large-Scale Computing | ||
| Overcoming Communication Latency Barriers in Massively Parallel Scientific Computation | ||
| CogniServe: Heterogeneous Server Architecture for Large-Scale Recognition | ||
| Simulating Whole Supercomputer Applications | ||
| Automated Full-System Power Characterization | ||
| Energy-Aware Accounting and Billing in Large-Scale Computing Facilities | ||
| Resource Management on Multicore Systems: The ACTORS Approach | ||
| Temperature-Aware Architecture: Lessons and Opportunities | ||
| Mar-11 | HotChip22 | Jose Renau, University of California, Santa CruzHot Chips 22 |
| Bulldozer: An Approach to Multithreaded Compute Performance | ||
| Bobcat: AMD's Low-Power x86 Processor | ||
| The zEnterprise 196 System and Microprocessor | ||
| Beyond Traditional Microprocessors for Geoscience High-Performance Computing Applications | ||
| Fermi GF100 GPU Architecture | ||
| Introducing the Adaptive Energy Management Features of the Power7 Chip | ||
| IBM Power Edge of Network Processor: A Wire-Speed System on a Chip | ||
| The GreenDroid Mobile Application Processor: An Architecture for Silicon's Dark Future | ||
| Jan-11 | Top Picks | Top Picks (11 top-pick paper from 2010) |
| Virtualized ECC: Flexible Reliability in Main Memory | ||
| Voltage Noise in Production Processors | ||
| Aérgia: A Network-on-Chip Exploiting Packet Latency Slack | ||
| Cohesion: An Adaptive Hybrid Memory Model for Accelerators | ||
| Data Marshaling for Multicore Systems | ||
| ReMAP: A Reconfigurable Architecture for Chip Multiprocessors | ||
| Thread Cluster Memory Scheduling | ||
| Coordinating DRAM and Last-Level-Cache Policies with the Virtual Write Queue | ||
| CHOP: Integrating DRAM Caches for CMP Server Platforms | ||
| Address Translation Aware Memory Consistency | ||
| Security Refresh: Protecting Phase-Change Memory against Malicious Wear Out | ||
| 2010 | ||
| Nov-10 | Chip Design | Rethinking Digital Design: Why Design Must Change |
| Performance and Energy Implications of Many-Core Caches for Throughput Computing | ||
| Putting Faulty Cores to Work | ||
| Fast, Accurate, and Validated Full-System Software Simulation of x86 Hardware | ||
| Workload Reduction and Generation Techniques | ||
| Energy-Efficient Fast Fourier Transforms for Cognitive Radio Systems | ||
| Sep-11 | Multi-Core | Multicore: The View from Europe |
| ArchExplorer for Automatic Design Space Exploration | ||
| The SARC Architecture | ||
| Explicit Communication and Synchronization in SARC | ||
| Parallel Programming Models for Heterogeneous Multicore Architectures | ||
| SARC Coherence: Scaling Directory Cache Coherence in Performance and Power | ||
| Merasa: Multicore Execution of Hard Real-Time Applications Supporting Analyzability | ||
| The Velox Transactional Memory Stack | ||
| HArtes: Hardware-Software Codesign for Heterogeneous Multicore Platforms | ||
| European Multicore Processing Projects | ||
| Jul-10 | Data Center | Server Engineering Insights for Large-Scale Online Services |
| Challenges and Opportunities for Extremely Energy-Efficient Processors | ||
| The Case for Full-Throttle Computing: An Alternative Datacenter Design Strategy | ||
| Scale-Out Networking in the Data Center | ||
| Ethernet for High-Performance Data centers: On the New IEEE Datacenter Bridging Standards | ||
| Rethinking Flash in the Data Center | ||
| Transformer: A New Paradigm for Building Data-Parallel Programming Models | ||
| Google-Wide Profiling: A Continuous Profiling Infrastructure for Data Centers | ||
| Can Subthreshold and Near-Threshold Circuits Go Mainstream? | ||
| May-10 | Simulation | Future Directions in Computer Architecture Research |
| The Future of Architectural Simulation | ||
| Programming Multicores: Do Applications Programmers Need to Write Explicitly Parallel Programs? | ||
| Fine-Grained Activation for Power Reduction in DRAM | ||
| Tuple Pruning Using Bloom Filters for Packet Classification | ||
| 3D Stacked Microprocessor: Are We There Yet? | ||
| Mar-10 | HotChip21 | Guest Editors' Introduction: Hot Chips 21 |
| Power7: IBM's Next-Generation Server Processor | ||
| Cache Hierarchy and Memory Subsystem of the AMD Opteron Processo | ||
| Sparc64 VIIIfx: A New-Generation Octocore Processor for Petascale Computing | ||
| Ubiquitous Parallel Computing from Berkeley, Illinois, and Stanford | ||
| The GPU Computing Era | ||
| Instruction Set Innovations for the Convey HC-1 Computer | ||
| Silicon MEMS Oscillators for High-Speed Digital Systems | ||
| Jan-10 | Top Picks | iCFP: Tolerating All-Level Cache Misses in In-Order Processors |
| Near-Optimal Cache Block Placement with Reactive Nonuniform Cache Architectures | ||
| A Task-Centric Memory Model for Scalable Accelerator Architectures | ||
| DMP: Deterministic Shared-Memory Multiprocessing | ||
| Making Address-Correlated Prefetching Practical | ||
| Accelerating Critical Section Execution with Asymmetric Multicore Architectures | ||
| Per-Thread Cycle Accounting | ||
| AnySP: Anytime Anywhere Anyway Signal Processing | ||
| Gate-Level Information-Flow Tracking for Secure Architectures | ||
| Predicting Voltage Droops Using Recurring Program and Microarchitectural Event Activity | ||
| Architectural Implications of Nanoscale-Integrated Sensing and Computing | ||
| Gordon: An Improved Architecture for Data-Intensive Applications | ||
| Phase-Change Technology and the Future of Main Memory | ||
| 2009 | ||
| Nov-09 | Cool Chips | Domain Partitioning Technology for Embedded Multicore Processors |
| A Full HD Multistandard Video Codec for Mobile Applications | ||
| Real-Time Object Recognition with Neuro-Fuzzy Controlled Workload-Aware Task Pipelining | ||
| Architecture Design of Versatile Recognition Processor for Sensornet Applications | ||
| A QVGA-Size Pixel-Parallel Image Processor for 1,000-fps Vision | ||
| Sep-09 | Dynamic Multicore Resource Management: A Machine Learning Approach | |
| A Benchmark Characterization of the EEMBC Benchmark Suite | ||
| Real-Time Operating Systems for Small Microcontrollers | ||
| Memory Built-in Self Test in Multicore Chips with Mesh-Based Networks | ||
| Hardware-Software Codesign for High-Speed Signature-based Virus Scanning | ||
| Jul-09 | Interconnect | Building Many-Core Processor-to-DRAM Networks with Monolithic CMOS Silicon Photonics |
| Practical High-Throughput Crossbar Scheduling | ||
| Express Virtual Channels with Capacitively Driven Global Links | ||
| A High-Speed Optical Multidrop Bus for Computer Interconnections | ||
| Photonic NoCs: System-Level Design Exploration | ||
| May-09 | Embedded Multicore Processors and Systems | |
| Maintaining I/O Data Coherence in Embedded Multicore Systems | ||
| Double-Data-Rate, Wave-Pipelined Interconnect for Asynchronous NoCs | ||
| MPA: Parallelizing an Application onto a Multicore Platform Made Easy | ||
| Software Standards for the Multicore Era | ||
| Memory Subsystems in High-End Routers | ||
| Mar-09 | HotChip20 | Rock: A High-Performance Sparc CMT Processor |
| Godson-3: A Scalable Multicore RISC Processor with x86 Emulation | ||
| Broadcom mediaDSP: A Platform for Building Programmable Multicore Video Processors | ||
| A New 40-nm FPGA and ASIC Common Platform | ||
| Voice Processors Based on the Human Hearing System | ||
| Jan-09 | Top Picks | Larrabee: A Many-Core x86 Architecture for Visual Computing |
| Parallelism-Aware Batch Scheduling: Enabling High-Performance and Fair Shared Memory Controllers | ||
| Cost-Efficient Dragonfly Topology for Large-Scale Systems | ||
| Server Designs for Warehouse-Computing Environments | ||
| Using Intradisk Parallelism to Build Energy-Efficient Storage Systems | ||
| Flexible Hardware Acceleration for Instruction-Grain Lifeguards | ||
| Atom-Aid: Detecting and Surviving Atomicity Violations | ||
| SoftSig: Software-Exposed Hardware Signatures for Code Analysis and Optimization | ||
| Trading Off Cache Capacity for Low-Voltage Operation | ||
| Mixed-Signal Approximate Computation: A Neural Predictor Case Study | ||
| Temperature Variation Characterization and Thermal Management of Multicore Architectures | ||
| Revival: A Variation-Tolerant Architecture Using Voltage Interpolation and Variable Latency |
- Microprocessor Report (2009-2011, Listed by Company/Category)
| Date | Category | Tile |
| 13-Jun-11 | Adapteva | Adapteva: More Flops, Less Watts |
| 31-Oct-11 | Altera | Altera's Answer to Zynq |
| 16-May-11 | Altera | In Brief: Altera Debuts MIPS CPU for FPGAs |
| 25-Oct-10 | Altera | Altera Adds CPUs for FPGAs |
| 22-Aug-11 | AMD | In Brief: AMD Gives Brazos a Boost |
| 8-Aug-11 | AMD | AMD's Reinvention Continues |
| 4-Jul-11 | AMD | AMD's 32nm Fusion Roadmap |
| 7-Feb-11 | AMD | In Brief: AMD's Bobcat Prowls Embedded |
| 31-Jan-11 | AMD | Editorial: AMD At a Crossroads |
| 13-Dec-10 | AMD | AMD's Fusion Finally Arrives |
| 30-Aug-10 | AMD | AMD Bulldozer Plows New Ground |
| 30-Aug-10 | AMD | AMD's Bobcat Snarls at Atom |
| 9-Aug-10 | AMD | Opteron 4100 Is Cool for Clouds |
| 22-Aug-11 | Apple | In Brief: Apple A6 Delayed for TSMC 28nm |
| 30-May-11 | Apple | Apple A5 Adds New Features |
| 26-Apr-10 | Apple | Why Apple Wants Intrinsity |
| 26-May-09 | Apple | Why Apple Feels Chipper |
| 14-Nov-11 | AppliedMicro | AppliedMicro Adds ARM for Servers |
| 18-Oct-10 | AppliedMicro | AppliedMicro Adds Multicore |
| 5-Jul-10 | AppliedMicro | In Brief: AppliedMicro Sinks Titan-IC |
| 24-May-10 | AppliedMicro | AppliedMicro Raises the Volume |
| 7-Nov-11 | ARM | ARM Pairs Cortex-A7 With A15 |
| 10-Oct-11 | ARM | In Brief: Cortex-M4F MCUs Hit 168MHz |
| 20-Jun-11 | ARM | In Brief: ARM CPU Secures APM Processor |
| 21-Feb-11 | ARM | ARM Expands Cortex-R Family |
| 22-Nov-10 | ARM | Cortex-A15 "Eagle" Flies the Coop |
| 13-Sep-10 | ARM | In Brief: ARM Launches Cortex A-15 |
| 2-Aug-10 | ARM | In Brief: Microsoft to Extend ARM |
| 21-Jun-10 | ARM | In Brief: ARM Unaffected by Virage Acquisition |
| 12-Apr-10 | ARM | ARM’s Digital Signal Controller |
| 26-Oct-09 | ARM | ARM's Midsize Multiprocessor |
| 27-Jul-09 | ARM | Hot-Rodding the Cortex-A8 |
| 2-Mar-09 | ARM | ARM's Smallest Thumb |
| 18-Oct-10 | Armada | Armada 628 Sails Into Mobile Lead |
| 26-Sep-11 | Broadcom | Broadcom to Acquire NetLogic |
| 14-Mar-11 | Broadcom | Broadcom's Mobile-Processor Magic |
| 22-Nov-10 | Broadcom | Broadcom Shows Off New CPU |
| 5-Jan-09 | Cadence | Cadence Speeds up Bridge to the Real World |
| 7-Nov-11 | Calxeda | Calxeda Spins 4W Server-on-a-Chip |
| 10-Oct-11 | Cavium | Cavium Adds DSP for Small Cells |
| 5-Sep-11 | Cavium | In Brief: Cavium Adds Search Coprocessors |
| 15-Nov-10 | Cavium | Cavium Completes Octeon II Line |
| 31-May-10 | Cavium | Cavium Pushes Octeon to 32 CPUs |
| 7-Feb-11 | Ceva | In Brief: Ceva Adds Caches to TeakLite-III |
| 8-Nov-10 | Ceva | Ceva Trains DSP Guns on TI |
| 5-Sep-11 | Cortina | In Brief: Cortina Processor Opens Gateways |
| 27-Jun-11 | Ezchip | EZchip NP-5 Targets 200Gbps |
| 27-Jun-11 | Freescale | Freescale Amplifies QorIQ Family |
| 25-Apr-11 | Freescale | Freescale's i.MX6 Graphically Detailed |
| 21-Feb-11 | Freescale | Freescale Cues CPU-DSP Hybrid |
| 10-Jan-11 | Freescale | i.MX6 Brings Quad Cores to Mobile |
| 27-Dec-10 | Freescale | Editorial: Freescale Regains Its Mojo |
| 29-Nov-10 | Freescale | In Brief: Freescale Extends QorIQ P1 Series |
| 15-Nov-10 | Freescale | In Brief: New i.MX536 Heads for Detroit |
| 6-Sep-10 | Freescale | Freescale Upgrades QorIQ |
| 19-Jul-10 | Freescale | Freescale Adds Intelligence to Sensors |
| 5-Jul-10 | Freescale | Freescale P5 Raises QorIQ's I.Q. |
| 28-Jun-10 | Freescale | Freescale Adopts ARM for MCUs |
| 3-Oct-11 | Haswell | In Brief: Haswell Premieres at IDF |
| 12-Sep-11 | IBM | Blue Gene/Q Is Super Efficient |
| 17-Oct-11 | Intel | Ivy Bridge Improves Graphics |
| 3-Oct-11 | Intel | In Brief: Xeon E5: Waiting for Ignition |
| 3-Oct-11 | Intel | In Brief: Intel's NTV Technology Saves Energy |
| 29-Aug-11 | Intel | AVX2 Refreshes x86 Architecture |
| 1-Aug-11 | Intel | In Brief: Intel Gains Leverage With Fulcrum |
| 18-Jul-11 | Intel | In Brief: Intel Shows MIC Progress |
| 6-Jun-11 | Intel | In Brief: Intel Revamps Roadmaps |
| 30-May-11 | Intel | Intel Retools Its Business Machine |
| 30-May-11 | Intel | Editorial: Intel Should Break Up |
| 23-May-11 | Intel | Intel Sprouts Fins at 22nm |
| 4-Apr-11 | Intel | Intel Developing Atom for Servers |
| 21-Mar-11 | Intel | New Itanium for 32nm and Beyond |
| 24-Jan-11 | Intel | In Brief: Intel Launches Sandy Bridge |
| 13-Dec-10 | Intel | In Brief: Intel Debuts ASIC Alternative |
| 15-Nov-10 | Intel | Editorial: Intel Eyes Foundry Market |
| 27-Sep-10 | Intel | Sandy Bridge Spans Generations |
| 20-Sep-10 | Intel | In Brief: Intel Unveils Atom E6xx, Westmere-EX |
| 2-Aug-10 | Intel | Intel Shakes Up Cellular Market |
| 14-Jun-10 | Intel | In Brief: Intel Adapts Larrabee for HPC |
| 31-May-10 | Intel | Intel Cuts Atom's Power |
| 24-Aug-09 | Intel | Intel Defends x86 Strategy |
| 17-Aug-09 | Intel | Editorial: Intel, M.D. |
| 30-Mar-09 | Intel | Intel Will Customize Atom |
| 17-Feb-09 | Intel | How Intel Got Big |
| 17-Feb-09 | Intel | Viewpoint: Can Detroit Emulate Intel? |
| 14-Jun-10 | Kilopass | Kilopass Brings Gusto to Memory |
| 24-Jan-11 | Lantiq | In Brief: Lantiq Networks the Home |
| 28-Feb-11 | LSI | LSI Expands Its Axxia Family |
| 13-Dec-10 | Marvel | Marvell Lands a Quad |
| 26-Jul-10 | Marvel | Cavium, Marvell, NetLogic Gain Share |
| 14-Mar-11 | MediaTek | In Brief: MediaTek Continues Smartphone Push |
| 16-Nov-09 | MicroMIPS | MicroMIPS Crams Code |
| 12-Sep-11 | Micron | Micron Reinvents DRAM Memory |
| 24-Jan-11 | Microsoft | Microsoft Redefines PC Processors |
| 29-Jun-09 | Microsoft | Microsoft Shows Natal to TV Audiences |
| 15-Jun-09 | Microsoft | Microsoft Announces Natal |
| 4-Apr-11 | MIPS | In Brief: MIPS Will License 64-Bit CPUs (Again) |
| 11-Oct-10 | MIPS | MIPS Boosts Multiprocessing |
| 13-Jul-09 | MIPS | China Gets Right With MIPS |
| 16-May-11 | MoSys | MoSys Innovates Networking Memory |
| 29-Aug-11 | Movidius | Movidius Powers 3D Video |
| 14-Mar-11 | MWC | In Brief: MWC Highlights 2x2 Wi-Fi, Glonass |
| 10-Oct-11 | NetLogic | NetLogic's XLP II Grows More CPUs |
| 12-Sep-11 | NetLogic | In Brief: NetLogic Previews 28nm XLP II |
| 25-Apr-11 | NetLogic | NetLogic Doubles Up XLP |
| 14-Feb-11 | NetLogic | NetLogic's Upgrade for Base Stations |
| 26-Jul-10 | Netlogic | NetLogic Broadens XLP Family |
| 28-Feb-11 | Nokia | In Brief: How Windows Changes Nokia |
| 16-May-11 | Nvidia | In Brief: Nvidia Picks Up the Phone |
| 2-May-11 | Oak | In Brief: Oak Trail Leads Intel to Tablets |
| 28-Sep-09 | Opys | Opus à Montreal |
| 19-Sep-11 | Oracle | Oracle Extends SPARC Commitment |
| 22-Feb-10 | Oracle | Editorial: Sun Fades Into Oracle’s Orbit |
| 2-Nov-09 | Phoenix | Phoenix's One-Second Boot |
| 21-Jun-10 | Plurality | Plurality Gets Ambitious with 256 CPUs |
| 16-Aug-10 | PowerPC | PowerPC Covers the Highs and Lows |
| 7-Nov-11 | Qualcomm | Qualcomm Gaining Processor Share |
| 31-Oct-11 | Qualcomm | Qualcomm Aims Hexagon at Femtocells |
| 22-Aug-11 | Qualcomm | In Brief: Qualcomm Extends Snapdragon Brand |
| 24-Jan-11 | Qualcomm | In Brief: Qualcomm Solves Wi-Fi Problem |
| 22-Mar-10 | Qualcomm | Snapdragon Success |
| 24-Oct-11 | Samsung | In Brief: Samsung Moves Exynos to 32nm |
| 11-Jul-11 | Spreadtrum | In Brief: Spreadtrum Gets 3G Technology |
| 13-Jun-11 | ST | ST Thrusts into Embedded Processing |
| 13-Jun-11 | SuVolta | In Brief: SuVolta Shrinks Transistor Power |
| 29-Mar-10 | Tabula | Tabula’s Time Machine |
| 21-Mar-11 | Tensilica | Tensilica DSP Targets LTE Advanced |
| 30-Nov-09 | Tensilica | Tensilica Tweaks Xtensa |
| 10-Aug-09 | Tensilica | Tensilica Plays Baseband |
| 21-Mar-11 | Thunderbolt | Thunderbolt Accelerates PC I/O |
| 14-Nov-11 | TI | In Brief: TI's Affordable Cortex-A8 SoCs |
| 15-Aug-11 | TI | Editorial: TI Faces OMAP Decision |
| 27-Jun-11 | TI | TI Tackles Small Base Stations |
| 27-Jun-11 | TI | In Brief: OMAP 4470 Improves CPU, Graphics |
| 7-Mar-11 | TI | In Brief: TI Accelerates Video Processors |
| 22-Feb-11 | TI | TI Previews 28nm OMAP5 |
| 27-Dec-10 | TI | In Brief: OMAP4 Revs Up to 1.5GHz |
| 13-Dec-10 | TI | In Brief: TI, Freescale Battle for Base Stations |
| 1-Nov-10 | TI | TI Announces 1.5GHz ARM MCUs |
| 21-Dec-09 | TI | TI Adds 31 New Stars |
| 9-Nov-09 | TI | More Applications for OMAP4 |
| 25-Jul-11 | Tilera | Tilera Sees Opening in Clouds |
| 30-May-11 | Via | In Brief: Via's First Quad-Core x86 Processor |
| 24-Jan-11 | Via | Via Doubles Down at CES |
| 7-Mar-11 | Xilinx | Xilinx ReARMs FPGAs |
| 16-May-11 | Xtensa | Xtensa Extends Instructions to 128 Bits |
| 24-Oct-11 | Architecture | Editorial: Virtualization Alternatives Emerge |
| 19-Sep-11 | Architecture | Godson-T Weaves Threads |
| 18-Jul-11 | Architecture | History of the Microprocessor, Part 2 |
| 27-Jun-11 | Architecture | Editorial: CPUs Become Specialized |
| 25-Apr-11 | Architecture | Search Coprocessors Route Packets |
| 21-Mar-11 | Architecture | Editorial: Core Wars Reach Phones |
| 17-Jan-11 | Architecture | CPU-IP Cores Fight for Dominance |
| 27-Dec-10 | Architecture | DRAM+CPU Hybrid Breaks Barriers |
| 27-Sep-10 | Architecture | Godson-3 Adds Vector Extensions |
| 28-Jun-10 | Architecture | Editorial: RISC Versus CISC Redux |
| 21-Jun-10 | Architecture | New Processors Target Data Centers |
| 16-Feb-10 | Architecture | The Rise of Licensable SMP |
| 1-Feb-10 | Architecture | Server Processors: Chapter 2009 (Part 2) |
| 25-Jan-10 | Architecture | Server Processors: Chapter 2009 (Part 1) |
| 19-Jan-10 | Architecture | ARC 601 Gets Small |
| 5-Oct-09 | Architecture | Looking Beyond Graphics |
| 26-May-09 | Architecture | Editorial: Are Configurable Cores General-Purpose Architectures? |
| 27-Apr-09 | Architecture | Going Parallel With Prism |
| 13-Apr-09 | Architecture | A Radio for Every MCU |
| 2-Mar-09 | Architecture | How to Avoid the Traps and Pitfalls of SOC Design: Part 2 |
| 23-Feb-09 | Architecture | How to Avoid the Traps and Pitfalls of SOC Design: Part 1 |
| 23-Feb-09 | Architecture | Editorial: What Security? Processors, Software, and the Human Factor |
| 9-Feb-09 | Architecture | Processor Design Mistakes, Part 11 |
| 26-Jan-09 | Architecture | Server Processors: Chapter 2008 (Part 2) |
| 26-Jan-09 | Architecture | Editorial: More Computers, Less Security |
| 20-Jan-09 | Architecture | Server Processors: Chapter 2008 (Part 1) |
| 12-Jan-09 | Architecture | Processor Design Mistakes, Part 10 |
| 27-Dec-10 | Technology | 3D Packaging Gains Momentum |
| 20-Dec-10 | Technology | In Brief: First PacketPro Chips Debut |
| 25-Oct-10 | Technology | Editorial: Moving Up the Food Chain |
| 27-Sep-10 | Technology | GlobalFoundries Pushes Boundaries |
| 27-Sep-10 | Technology | Editorial: What Is a Microprocessor? |
| 23-Aug-10 | Technology | Editorial: How to Blow $100M |
| 26-Jul-10 | Technology | Editorial: The Race to the Bottom |
| 19-Jul-10 | Technology | Two-Headed Snapdragon Takes Flight |
| 19-Jul-10 | Technology | Tears for Tier Logic |
| 24-May-10 | Technology | Editorial: Getting the Band Back Together |
| 30-Apr-10 | Technology | Smartphone Spectrum Disorder |
| 26-Apr-10 | Technology | The Single-Chip Cloud Computer |
| 29-Mar-10 | Technology | Market Watch: The Future of 3D TV |
| 29-Mar-10 | Technology | In Memoriam: Ellen Clements |
| 25-Jan-10 | Technology | Editorial: Simplicity Itself |
| 28-Dec-09 | Technology | YouTube Energizes Engineering |
| 28-Dec-09 | Technology | Editorial: Augmented Reality—and Larrabee |
| 14-Dec-09 | Technology | CPU Marketing: The Next Frontier |
| 12-Oct-09 | Technology | Editorial: Defining the ASSP |
| 28-Sep-09 | Technology | Editorial: Picoprojectors Hit the Mainstream |
| 14-Sep-09 | Technology | Summer Shopping Spree |
| 8-Sep-09 | Technology | Market Watch: Bluetooth 3.0 is Coming |
| 31-Aug-09 | Technology | The Next System Node |
| 20-Jul-09 | Technology | Editorial: Software Wars |
| 13-Jul-09 | Technology | Wi-Fi Radio Receives Custom ISA |
| 13-Jul-09 | Technology | Market Watch: Here Comes the Media Phone |
| 29-Jun-09 | Technology | Editorial: Tough Times Bring Change |
| 18-May-09 | Technology | Book Review: Analog Circuits |
| 11-May-09 | Technology | Itty-Bitty 32-Bitters |
| 27-Apr-09 | Technology | Editorial: Complexity Brings Change |
| 20-Apr-09 | Technology | The Magical Magnetic Wand |
| 30-Mar-09 | Technology | Editorial: Memory: The Elephant in the Room |
| 16-Mar-09 | Technology | Market Watch: Global Semiconductor Outlook |
| 9-Mar-09 | Technology | The Buffet at the MGM Grand |
| 2-Feb-09 | Technology | Market Watch: Flash Resists Recession |
| 12-Sep-11 | Technology | Editorial: Ultrabooks Drive Innovation |
| 18-Jul-11 | Technology | Editorial: 100 Billion Transistors Ahead |
| 18-Apr-11 | Technology | The 28nm Turning Point |
| 18-Apr-11 | Technology | Editorial: Semi Funding Returns |
| 14-Feb-11 | Technology | Editorial: Post-PC Era? Not Again! |
| 11-Jul-11 | Embedded | Embedded Processor Market Up 31% |
| 30-May-11 | Embedded | Visual Computing Becomes Embedded |
| 9-May-11 | Embedded | In Brief: Embedded Memory Shrinks to 40nm |
| 21-Mar-11 | Embedded | Renesas Mobile Targets #1 Spot |
| 7-Mar-11 | Embedded | Mobile Processors Multiply at MWC |
| 31-Jan-11 | Embedded | Embedded Rollouts Continue in 2010 |
| 4-Jan-10 | Embedded | Year of the Microcontroller |
| 23-Nov-09 | Embedded | Editorial: Fine-Tuning the SoC |
| 22-Jun-09 | Embedded | PCB/FPGA Codesign Opens System Future |
| 8-Jun-09 | Embedded | EEMBC's Dhrystone Killer |
