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The Intel Core Microarchitecture is the name of the internal architecture of multicore processor implementations from Intel Corporation introduced in 2006. The processing cores of the Core Microarchitecture use sophisticated ways to get the highest level of Instruction Level Parallelism (ILP) from sequential instruction streams, using out-of-order, superscalar pipelining. The on-chip memory hierarchy employs multiple levels of inclusive caches, uses different kinds of hardware prefetching techniques, and is partly shared among the cores on the chip.
These processors belong to the family of x86-compatibleprocessors, originating in the 8086 processor from Intel in 1978. Their Instruction Set Architecture (ISA) – i.e., the programming interface – is classified as CISC (Complex Instruction Set Computing), which means that the assembly code is compact but quite complex and irregular. The 32-bit and 64-bit...
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Weidendorfer, J. (2011). Intel Core Microarchitecture, x86 Processor Family. In: Padua, D. (eds) Encyclopedia of Parallel Computing. Springer, Boston, MA. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-0-387-09766-4_10
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