Architecture All Access: Modern CPU Architecture Part 1 - Key Concepts | Intel Technology

What is a CPU, and how did they become what they are today? Boyd Phelps, CVP of Client Engineering at Intel, takes us through the history of CPU architecture, key architecture concepts like computing abstraction layers, Instruction Set Architecture (ISA), and more. Watch part two 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 CPUs Are Everywhere
0:52 Meet Boyd Phelps, CVP of Client Engineering
1:58 Topics We're Covering
2:32 What Is A CPU?
5:39 CPU Architecture History
6:40 Bug Aside
7:30 Back to CPU History
11:13 Computing Abstraction Layers
14:58 Instruction Set Architecture (ISA)
18:28 What's in Part Two?
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The fact we can even make these things blows my mind.

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YOU could make a simple processor if you were so inclined. Hell, you could make a complex processor if you wanted too and had the time to learn. There was this guy on hackaday that described how he makes chips in his garage. He is probably state of the art for about 1984, but sheesh, he is one guy in his garage. That is pretty amazing...

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[@Validole]

I mean, I just watched through this again to bump it in the algorithm a bit, as I think it deserves attention.

[@josephsmock3679]

This is probably the best summary to microprocessors that could be made. It captures all relevant concepts in one concise video; excellent to show a computer naive friend or coworker.

[@Epsio0]

If I ever need a metaphor or something to help illustrate what, "standing on the shoulders of giants" means, I will refer to this video. The amount of abstractions that each layer works on top of is insane!

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Incredible overview. It would be great to have some more high quality videos about each of those parts in more detail. A bit about the chemistry/ physics/ electrical engineering of a transistor and the lithographic process, how do you connect transistors together to AND/ OR/ NOT in more detail, e.g. with some calculations and so on. There is much, much more to it e.g. the L1 cache is actually separated for instructions and data, so there are aspects of the Harvard architecture underneath. I don't think there is an attractive high quality video about these aspects, why they are the way they are, how they connect the other aspects of a modern processor. There are many more questions, for instance, how does a modern CPU start itself?

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Incredible video if you're a hardware enthusiast like myself. I've been around since the 486 days and I still found this informative and incredibly entertaining.

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I've written programs as a hobby and semi professionally for 15 years. Never understood computer science, never trained formally, but knew how to write programs. This video answers all of my questions at a level I (an amateur) can understand. Thank you!

[@Umeldaraje]

I am in chip design from 1984 and tried many times to explain to people what am I doing. If I would have had these videos my explanation could have been easier. The animation and graphics are unbelievable quality. The Part 1 is a good umbrella explanation of the chip design in general and CPUs in particular. I will call this the 10.000 feet view. The Part 2 is the 1 foot view directly into the processor architecture so some industry lingo and knowledge is required. I would have liked to have a 3.000 feet and a 100 feet view for popularizing chip design and CPU for people who do not have an electronics background. Intel has all the capabilities to do it so please consider it. In the times of Artificial Intelligence and Biotech advancements making more people understand where all started and how it humans can benefit from their merger should be a good topic to cover. Looking forward for new videos from you.

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i would have loved to have someone like you to ask questions about what you do 🤣 i had to learn it the hard way... still learning

[@timber7744]

Thanks! I hope you upload part 2 soon!

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This is entertaining :) I already have a CS Degree and work as a Network Forensics Analyst but I still find this entertaining better than watching some non sense videos. I like learning about the physics of the electrons or photons inside the CPU highway and logic gates and conducting test's of new architecture designs in a digital 3D simulator environment and record the data.

[@alexandrebustico9691]

Very good video that I will ask my student to look at. I appreciate the tribute to John Von Neumann, the importance given to the stored-program concept and the layered conception which permit limited human brain to conceive something so hugely complex. These videos are a good introduction to computer architecture and every student should look at them before beginning their lecture. Perhaps the chapter on language translation is a little bit vague, mixing compiled and interpreted language, and even as being myself a perl lover, I think you should mention python for the young people.

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Great video! Although I may not know a lot about CPU architecture, this was a nice learning experience. So cool to see Intel doing things like this. Keep it up!

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Gotta love how nice the script is for this video and how it's voiced so honeslty.

[@mikedugumquick3535]

This class was immensely enlightening. Thank you.

[@monkeysflingpoo9648]

This is great. Hopefully, you'll go into greater detail about each point of this video. Such as dedicated videos focusing on each abstraction layer.

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Since I decide to study Information Technology.. I love to watch about IT. And this videos I'm surprised because all the topics I'm reading was all here.. specially Moore Law .. thank you for sharing this video. I hope more videos to watch.

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Thanks for making this video. You made it easy enough for a semi-intelligent layman like myself to understand.

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As a Computer Engineering student, this is amazing to see!

[@jakkdlaw]

Wow, so much of what was said in my classes makes sense now.

[@acidbaron]

Interesting watch regardless if you are an AMD or Intel fanboy, should promote this more so it could get more views. Picked a link from this up on PC gamer, but i am sure more people not just gamers are interested in how these things actually worked considered how obsessed we are with our phones, cars, etc...the computer hardware industry creates the framework of what our future could look like, subbed and looking forward to the remaining episodes.

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We really need to be taught computer architecture by professionals... not by some university teachers who never coded in assembly

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Agree, My teachers suck, well actually not my teachers hahaha I'm pn chemical eng. But bro, they teach so old things about architecture

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@@freexmangaming4782 It's difficult to completely understand the concepts if you are taught about modern processors right off the bat. So, they teach the old ones initially and you could take an advanced level course if you interested to learn about modern architectures.

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I am a software engineer but a hardware enthusiasts as well. Great video for sure!

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Incredible introduction to CPU. Extremely Informative. Thank you!

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short and precise... beautifully explained

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That was actually great! And understandable. Thanks.

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This is amazing. Thank you Intel! I have been fascinated by these devices since I was a little boy in the 90s (286, 386, 486, Pentium). And I continue to be fascinated. I look forward to Intel coming back and continuing to innovate: Alder Lake, Meteor Lake, and beyond to Lunar Lake.

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Spectacular video! Please keep this up!

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This is a great information session, right on Intel, I like this.

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Thank you for making these videos, I enjoyed them really much.

[@JoseRicardoK]

Great video mate! Congratulations. I just think you could have talked about the instruction size (16, 32, 64 bits....). Like what really means to have a 64 bits computer compared to a 32 bits one; how much more computing power it brings but also how much more complexity it creates when designing the units registers, ALU. The instruction size defines, for example, how many colors the OS can reproduce, the quality of the sound, how much memory the computer can have/address, how large are the number it can calculate etc...

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superb. mind-blowing. beyond one's imgination!

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have gone through computer organization course. very well explained!

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This is for free! So grateful

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I love this! I learned something new about CPUsQQQ

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What an amazing video, this video just made me want to join the technology workforce!

[@kevon217]

this video is an incredible overview. thanks!

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Impressive - more of these, please!

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so nostalgic ! how engineering is changing and leaving a positive impact in our lives , #thankyouintel

[@yogenrai5651]

wow I could never understand this in four years I won't blame anyone but this course was awesome

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Wow this series is great!

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Love this series !!!

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That's great! Thank you!

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This was phenomenal.

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great and impressive, short but do give enough information for the overview of CPU architecture

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Thanks this was really informative

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Really Impressive Video. Keep it up :)

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wonderful!

[@vladislav839]

You should have mentioned Federico Faggin, since you've talk about 4004. He is the man behind it.

[@opiniondiscarded6650]

Now I want Koss to do a video about headphone design

[@hellosayy2725]

thks for this great lecture 😊

[@sayanbandyopadhyay216]

Sorry for an offbit query. Can somebody please tell me what kind of backgroun music was used in the intro ? For me, the music made everything in the video much better.

[@silentfox8]

awesome info! this dude looks like ben affleck and ben stiller combined and i cant unsee it XD

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this video was astounding

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Great! Thanks!

[@MichaelQ5150]

Some Teacher Resources to go along with these videos would be great!

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Inspiring! I'd like to become a CPU design engineer

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@Kumkum Tins electronic engineering* but even that isnt quite right, he should major in computer science

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VLSI

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great video !

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Amazing !!

[@Cardroid]

These are getting good the more you watch it.. more “all access” from Intel!

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Great video team :)

[@vinodkumarsunnapalli1244]

Great work and do more videos

[@s-sg2640]

great overview!

[@Alif24Nizar]

14:41 .. sorry for my bad english but The intel nowadays high-power CPU is based on "heavily modified" P6 .. did tremont design is can be a "future" of Intel's high-power CPU ? thanks

[@carlhowitzer9768]

Nicely done intel. Schools etc. can make good use of this footage.

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It's propaganda.

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Amazing video!

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Mind. Blown.

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this is amazing!

[@patron9095]

Reading von Neumanns works is not for the faint of heart

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Thanks Bruh!

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Great video!

[@russell2952]

Nice to have someone who knows what they're talking about rather than an actor.

[@flippert0]

What is a 'CVP' in a company (here: Intel)? It must be some 'vice president', but what does the 'C' stand for? Unfortunately, Google only lists "customer value proposition" and "Configuation via Protocal' as possible acronyms. Update: after some consideration, I came to the conclusion that the 'C' stands for 'Corporate'. So the CVP is a 'Corporate Vice President'.

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awesome

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version fine? Also are the extra plug-ins worth the extra $100?

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I have a Dream to work on a PCB And Microprocessor company , I am studying Msc. Cs I just know about the simple things about microprocessor that's why it's my curiosity to know about this thing more deeply.

[@diegonayalazo]

Thanks

[@gregandark8571]

The video is nice,but can we turn down Intel IME backdoor ?

[@andythomson2227]

Thanku sir

[@rajatchopra1411]

8:11 Correction* Actually John Von Neumann did not invent the storage of data as program concept, he was just the one to publish the same.

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It's amazing.

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Amazing

[@Validole]

If I might make a suggestion: the first half of the video is perhaps a bit too much of a recap of things most people interested in the content would know. This could perhaps have been a "chapter 0" video of its own, with appropriate references from the chapter 1 and 2 videos, as things like Moore's law gets mentioned (the in-video pop-up card format). That way you don't dilute the focus group, and get better watch time performance (as those for whom the latter half gets too technical click away, and those already familiar with the first half fast-forward or neglect the video as too trivial), and also get better click-through performance, for optimizing the KZbin algorithm.

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