Semiconductor Technologies

• Understanding Hardware Transactional Memory in Intel's Haswell Architecture
• By David ChisnallNov 5, 2013

Haswell is the first mainstream architecture to include hardware support for transactional memory. David Chisnall describes how it works and what it means for developers.

• Scheduling Challenges with ARM's big.LITTLE Architecture
• By David ChisnallOct 28, 2013

big.LITTLE is an ARM marketing term for a relatively simple concept. David Chisnall explains what big.LITTLE and similar strategies will mean for operating systems designers over the coming years.

• The Dark Silicon Problem and What it Means for CPU Designers
• By David ChisnallOct 22, 2013

The so-called "dark silicon problem" is the subject of a lot of marketing and misinformation. David Chisnall looks at what it really means for CPU designers and how it's likely to affect future processors.