Alpha 21464The Alpha 21464 is an unfinished microprocessor that implements the Alpha instruction set architecture (ISA) developed by Digital Equipment Corporation and later by Compaq after it acquired Digital. The microprocessor was also known as EV8 (codenamed Araña). Slated for a 2004 release, it was canceled on 25 June 2001 when Compaq announced that Alpha would be phased out in favor of Itanium by 2004. When it was canceled, the Alpha 21464 was at a late stage of development but had not been taped out.
SilvermontSilvermont is a microarchitecture for low-power Atom, Celeron and Pentium branded processors used in systems on a chip (SoCs) made by Intel. Silvermont forms the basis for a total of four SoC families: Merrifield and Moorefield - consumer SoCs intended for smartphones Bay Trail - consumer SoCs aimed at tablets, hybrid devices, netbooks, nettops, and embedded/automotive systems Avoton - SoCs for micro-servers and storage devices Rangeley - SoCs targeting network and communication infrastructure.
Address generation unitThe address generation unit (AGU), sometimes also called address computation unit (ACU), is an execution unit inside central processing units (CPUs) that calculates addresses used by the CPU to access main memory. By having address calculations handled by separate circuitry that operates in parallel with the rest of the CPU, the number of CPU cycles required for executing various machine instructions can be reduced, bringing performance improvements.
AMD K6Le K6 est un microprocesseur x86, construit par AMD, qui remplaça le K5. Lancé le , cadencé à 166 et , le K6 est basé sur le design du microprocesseur Nx686 que NexGen concevait quand cette société fut rachetée par AMD. Il a été suivi le de versions à et . Il dispose d'une FPU intégrée, de de mémoire cache de niveau 1 et des instructions MMX d'Intel et se connecte sur un connecteur de type Socket 7 (bus ) ou SuperSocket 7 (bus ).
Cyrix 6x86Le CYRIX 6x86 est un microprocesseur de type x86 lancé en 1995. Fin 1995, Cyrix présente sa sixième génération de processeurs : le 6x86 autrement appelé MI. Dans les calculs en nombres entiers, le 6x86 surpasse même les processeurs d'Intel mais ce n'est pas le cas en calcul en virgule flottante (la FPU tourne à la moitié de la vitesse du processeur). Quoique compatible avec le Pentium par son brochage et sa tension électrique, le 6x86 de Cyrix n'est pas à proprement parler un clone de ce dernier, certains programmes et cartes mères se révélant même incapables de fonctionner avec celui-ci.
Execution unitIn computer engineering, an execution unit (E-unit or EU) is a part of the central processing unit (CPU) or graphics processing unit (GPU) that performs the operations and calculations forwarded from the instruction unit. It may have its own internal control sequence unit (not to be confused with the CPU's main control unit), some registers, and other internal units such as an arithmetic logic unit, address generation unit, floating-point unit, load–store unit, branch execution unit or some smaller and more specific components.
Burroughs Large SystemsThe Burroughs Large Systems Group produced a family of large 48-bit mainframes using stack machine instruction sets with dense syllables. The first machine in the family was the B5000 in 1961, which was optimized for compiling ALGOL 60 programs extremely well, using single-pass compilers. The B5000 evolved into the B5500 (disk rather than drum) and the B5700 (up to four systems running as a cluster). Subsequent major redesigns include the B6500/B6700 line and its successors, as well as the separate B8500 line.
BranchementEn informatique, un branchement est une opération consistant à se déplacer au sein d'un code exécuté par un processeur, en « sautant » à une adresse identifiée au lieu de poursuivre l'exécution du code séquentiellement. Un processeur est une unité de traitement séquentielle, ce qui signifie qu'il exécute un ensemble d'instructions en effectuant celles-ci les unes après les autres.
POWER1The POWER1 is a multi-chip CPU developed and fabricated by IBM that implemented the POWER instruction set architecture (ISA). It was originally known as the RISC System/6000 CPU or, when in an abbreviated form, the RS/6000 CPU, before introduction of successors required the original name to be replaced with one that used the same naming scheme (POWERn) as its successors in order to differentiate it from the newer designs.
Intel MICXeon Phi was a series of x86 manycore processors designed and made by Intel. It was intended for use in supercomputers, servers, and high-end workstations. Its architecture allowed use of standard programming languages and application programming interfaces (APIs) such as OpenMP. Xeon Phi launched in 2010. Since it was originally based on an earlier GPU design (codenamed "Larrabee") by Intel that was cancelled in 2009, it shared application areas with GPUs.
