The virtual memory architecture is specified either via page tables, as in IBM VM/370 and the 80×86, or via the TLB structure, as in many RISC architectures. Rather than pay an extra level of ...

Adapted from “Computer Architecture, Fifth Edition: A Quantitative Approach” by John Hennessy and David Patterson (Morgan Kaufmann) Related articles: Memory Hierarchy Design – Part 1. Basics of Memory ...

Evaluation methodology/metrics and caveats, instruction set design, advanced pipelining, instruction level parallelism, prediction-based techniques, alternative architectures (VLIW, Vector and SIMD), ...

Part 4: Trends Future Hot Topics in Computer Architecture (sea of accelerators, 3D integration, ... This includes processor cores, the memory hierarchy, branch prediction, and more.

Apple's Unified Memory Architecture first brought changes to the Mac with Apple Silicon M1 chips. There are clear architectural benefits for the hardware — and it is both good and bad for consumers.