本书由图灵奖得主Patterson和Hennessy联袂撰写，是计算机体系结构新黄金时代推荐阅读之作。根据读者的需求，这一版将RV64切换为RV32，减少10条指令，降低学习难度；新增关于领域定制体系结构（DSA）的讨论，使用Google的TPUv1作为示例，还新增了TPUv3 DSA超级计算机与NVIDIA Volta GPU集群的比较；每一章都增加了“性能提升”一节，分别采用数据级并行、指令级并行、线程级并行等方法，仅增加21行代码便使矩阵乘法程序加速近50 000倍，直观呈现出硬件对提高能效的重要性。
CHAPTERS
1 Computer Abstractions and Technology 2
1.1 Introduction 3
1.2 Seven Great Ideas in Computer Architecture 10
1.3 Below Your Program 13
1.4 Under the Covers 16
1.5 Technologies for Building Processors and Memory 25
1.6 Performance 29
1.7 The Power Wall 40
1.8 The Sea Change: The Switch from Uniprocessors to Multiprocessors 43
1.9 Real Stuff: Benchmarking the Intel Core i7 46
1.10 Going Faster: Matrix Multiply in Python 49
1.11 Fallacies and Pitfalls 50
1.12 Concluding Remarks 53
1.13 Historical Perspective and Further Reading 55
1.14 Self-Study 55
1.15 Exercises 59
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