AMD's recent branch prediction optimizations, which significantly improved gaming performance on Ryzen 9000 "Zen 5" and Ryzen 7000 CPUs, are now available for Windows 11 23H2 users. This update offers ...
If you recall, some benchmarks for AMD's new Ryzen 9000 "Zen 5"-based desktop processors were well behind the expected performance gains compared to the previous generation. Those expectations were ...
A new technical paper titled “VMSCAPE: Exposing and Exploiting Incomplete Branch Predictor Isolation in Cloud Environments” was published by researchers at ETH Zurich. “Virtualization is a cornerstone ...
In brief: AMD's Zen 5 series chips arrived earlier this month to some salty reviews over the performance discrepancies that didn't reflect the promised uplifts. Not long after, the chipmaker announced ...
The Spectre-like CPU branch target injection (BTI) breaks the guest-host layer in virtualized environments, introducing a new threat to data centers and the cloud. Researchers have demonstrated a ...
Neural network-based branch prediction techniques represent a significant advancement in processor architecture, where machine learning models replace traditional, heuristic-based mechanisms to ...