Goal: The lecture aims at the familiarization of students with key notions, main
relationships and unfolding trends concerning processors. Case examples help to
understand the curriculum.
Course description: An overview of the evolution of the Intel Core family in client, HEDT, server
and mobile processors. The emergence and evolution of AMD’s Zen-based
architectures. The emerging competition between Intel and AMD in the field of
processors. Evolution of the ARM ISA and ARM Cortex processor families. The
emergence and development of ARM-based Windows devices