The 7th annual Undergraduate Architecture Mentoring (uArch) Workshop took place alongside the International Symposium of Computer Architecture (ISCA) 2025, in the vibrant city of Tokyo, Japan! Similar to previous years, uArch was conducted in a hybrid format, combining in-person and virtual elements.The workshop introduces undergraduate and early master’s students to research and career paths in […]| SIGARCH
The death of hardware store optimization.| Performance Matters
Taking a second look at the newly introduced mask registers, this time with the benefit of a SKX die shot from Fritzchens Fritz.| Performance Matters
We look at the zero store optimization as it applies to Intel’s newest micro-architecture.| Performance Matters
Probing a previously undocumented zero-related optimization on Intel CPUs.| Performance Matters
Some mostly too-low-level-to-care-about hardware details of the mask registers introduced in AVX-512.| Performance Matters