SAN JOSE, Calif. — Swedish startup Xelerated Packet Devices said it will defy conventional wisdom by introducing a fully pipelined network processor that operates at 40-Gbit/second wire speed by next ...

I'm taking a computer architecture course at my university to satisfy some prerequisites I'm missing for grad school. As a disclaimer, I'm in CS, not CE or EE, so my understanding of the detailed ...

Design and understanding of the computer system as a whole unit. Performance Evaluation and its role in computer system design; Instruction Set Architecture design, Datapath design and optimizations ...

To my knowledge, processors with longer pipelines (P4) are able to run at higher frequencies as opposed to those with shorter piplines (Athlon). I've read that from several places but none of them ...