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

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.

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

[karehaqt]

The fact we can even make these things blows my mind.

[GregoryJones]

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.

[Validole]

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

[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.

[DannyTan-dmou]

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!

[KaliszAd]

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?

[devinmd_]

My GOD!!! This is content is nothing below gold. Pure food for the brain.

[Epsio]

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!

[MrMagoo-nolb]

Nice! No marketing fluff and extremely informative. Nice job 👍👌

[wallaceobey]

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

[j_official]

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.

[jacintafactor]

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.

[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...

[josephanyanwu]

computer architecture is explained in simple form and keeps one waiting to hear more.

[YaboiJenkins]

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!

[swlak]

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

[timber]

Thanks! I hope you upload part 2 soon!

[ShaunForgie]

Beautiful content. The best summary on the topic of computing technology I have ever watched. Thank you Intel may the force be with you 🙂

[alexandrebustico]

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.

[jakkdlaw]

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