[RetroBytes] nicely presents the curious history of the SPARC processor architecture. SPARC, short for Scalable Processor Architecture, defined some of the most commercially successful RISC ...

Last time I talked about getting started with CPU design by looking at older designs before trying to tackle a more modern architecture. In particular, I recommended Caxton Foster’s Blue ...

Find the technical paper here. Published February 2024. Kissner, Michael, Leonardo Del Bino, Felix Päsler, Peter Caruana, and George Ghalanos. “An All-Optical General-Purpose CPU and Optical Computer ...