While the groundwork for this was technically laid back in November when Intel released GCC patches (following our earlier reporting), a major new piece of the puzzle has just surfaced. Those patches ...

The handwritten PDFs in HandWrittenNotes/ have been rendered into page images under images/HandWrittenNotes/. This index maps every page image to the day where it is most useful for revision. The day ...

When it comes to PCs, Westerners are most most familiar with x86/x64 processors from Intel and AMD, with Apple Silicon taking up a significant market share, too. However, in China, a relatively new ...

BillPg] has been designing a fantasy 1980s-era home computer. As part of the exercise, he’s reevaluating all the assumptions that have grown organically over time in the small computer ...

Running AI models on x86 CPUs is becoming easier and faster ...

Instructions can be seen all around us in our daily lives. For example, on packets of food, in manuals or guidebooks, and even on the roads and streets outside. An instruction manual tells the reader ...

A groundbreaking computer chip, the ARM processor, was born not from a quest for raw speed, but from a focus on efficiency.

Abstract: RISC-V is an open-source and royalty-free instruction set architecture (ISA), which opens up a new era of processor innovation. RISC-V has the characteristics of modularization and ...

Celldetective is an open-source software integrating segmentation, tracking, and event detection to perform high-throughput end-to-end study of dynamic cell interactions, without requiring coding ...

Abstract: Binary analysis of software is a critical step in cyber forensics applications such as program vulnerability assessment and malware detection. This involves interpreting instructions ...

The preface of each volume indicates the version of each standard that has been formally ratified by RISC-V International. Older official versions of the specifications are archived at the GitHub ...