Improving Performance and Power Efficiency By Safely Eliminating Load Instruction Execution (ETH Zürich, Intel)


A technical paper titled “Constable: Improving Performance and Power Efficiency by Safely Eliminating Load Instruction Execution” was published by researchers at ETH Zürich and Intel Corporation.  This paper earned the Best Paper Award in the International Symposium on Computer Architecture (ISCA). Abstract: "Load instructions often limit instruction-level parallelism (ILP) in modern pr... » read more

Chip Industry’s Technical Paper Roundup: Oct 18


New technical papers added to Semiconductor Engineering’s library this week. [table id=57 /] » read more

Accelerating Off-Chip Load Requests By Removing The On-Chip Cache Access Latency From Their Critical Path


A new technical paper titled "Hermes: Accelerating Long-Latency Load Requests via Perceptron-Based Off-Chip Load Prediction" was published by researchers at ETH Zurich, Intel Processor Architecture Research Lab, and LIRMM, Univ. Montpellier, CNRS.  The work received a best paper award at MICRO 2022. Abstract "Long-latency load requests continue to limit the performance of high-performance ... » read more