We all love good ol’ architecture research! From a germ of an idea, through a thorny path of its implementation and validation, to its publication. With its publication, hopefully comes...

In a recent opinion post on security disclosures, Uht questions if the public disclosure of hardware security vulnerabilities has had any benefits, and suggests that it would be better not...

Background These are exciting and challenging times for computer architects. The looming end of Moore's law and the breakdown of Dennard scaling force everybody to put on their thinking...

There are millions of viruses, etc., in the wild today. Countless new ones are devised by black-hat hackers all the time. In order to proactively defend against new exploits, some...

The GPGPU’s massive multithreading is unnecessary for DNNs, and imposes performance, area, and energy overheads. By avoiding such multithreading, the TPU is more efficient.