The year so far has been filled with news of Spectre and Meltdown. These exploits take advantage of features like speculative execution, and memory access timing. What they have in common is the fa… ...

An eight-way associative cache means that each block of main memory could be in one of eight cache blocks. Ryzen's L1 instruction cache is 4-way associative, while the L1 data cache is 8-way set ...

Cache cache, baby For the future of gaming CPUs, there's one thing that every engineer I spoke to agrees is extremely important: cache. The closer you can get the data required by the processing ...