Architecture All Access: Modern CPU Architecture 2 - Microarchitecture Deep Dive | Intel Technology

What is a CPU microarchitecture and what are the building blocks inside a CPU? Boyd Phelps, CVP of Client Engineering at Intel, takes us through key microarchitecture concepts like pipelines, speculation, branch prediction as well as the main building blocks in the front and back end of a CPU. Want to learn about the history of CPU architecture? Check out part one here: • Architecture All Acces...
Boyd Phelps has worked on some of the most well-known chip designs in Intel’s history, from Nehalem to Haswell to Tiger Lake and more.
Architecture All Access is a master class technology series featuring Senior Intel Technical Leaders taking an educational approach to the historical impact and future innovations of key architectures that will continue to be at the center of ‘world-changing technology that enriches the lives of every person on earth.’ If you are interested in CPUs, FPGAs, Quantum Computing and beyond, subscribe and hit the bell to get new episode notifications.
Chapters:
0:00 Welcome to CPU Architecture Part 2
0:51 Meet Boyd Phelps, CVP of Client Engineering
1:14 What Are We Covering?
1:47 Key Building Blocks in a CPU
3:16 Pipeline Depth
5:15 Speculation
7:06 Branch Prediction
7:35 Speculative Execution
12:48 The Microprocessor Front End: Predict and Fetch
14:44 The Microprocessor Front End: Decode
17:19 Superscalar Execution
18:36 Out-Of-Order
19:57 CPU Back End
23:35 Micro-Architecture Summary
24:39 Where Are We Headed?
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Thanks Boyd for these very clear video's i knew the basics but Part2 was very interesting and helped me to paint a clearer picture of what was going on. I would love to see more of these video's and even go more in depth!

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Incrediby well produced and informative. One question: at 4:58, shouldn't the time to complete a stage be 0.2 (1/5th) billionths of a second if the CPU is running at 5GHz? It looks like 5 billionths of a second per stage would give a 200 MHz clock speed.

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