The best‎-selling computer organization book is thoroughly updated to provide a new focus on the revolutionary change taking place in industry today‎:‎ the switch from uniprocessor to multicore microprocessors‎.‎ This new emphasis on parallelism is supported by updates reflecting the newest technologies‎,‎ with examples highlighting the latest processor designs and benchmarking standards‎.‎ As with previous editions‎,‎ a MIPS processor is the core used to present the fundamentals of hardware technologies‎,‎ assembly language‎,‎ computer arithmetic‎,‎ pipelining‎,‎ memory hierarchies and I/O‎.‎ Sections on the ARM and x86 architectures are also included‎.‎All disc‎-based content for this title is now available on the Web‎.‎ * Covers the revolutionary change from sequential to parallel computing‎,‎ with a new chapter on parallelism and sections in every chapter highlighting parallel hardware and software topics‎.‎* Includes a new appendix by the Chief Scientist and the Director of Architecture of NVIDIA covering the emergence and importance of the modern GPU‎,‎ describing in detail for the first time the highly parallel‎,‎ highly multithreaded multiprocessor optimized for visual computing‎.‎* Describes a novel approach to measuring multicore performance‎-‎-the ‎"‎Roofline model‎"‎‎-‎-with benchmarks and analysis for the AMD Opteron X4‎,‎ Intel Xeon 5000‎,‎ Sun UltraSPARC T2‎,‎ and IBM Cell‎.‎* Includes new content on Flash memory and Virtual Machines‎.‎* Provides a large‎,‎ stimulating set of new exercises‎,‎ covering almost 200 pages‎.‎* Features the AMD Opteron X4 and Intel Nehalem as real‎-world examples throughout the book‎.‎* Updates all processor performance examples using the SPEC CPU2006 suite‎.‎