The 5th edition of Computer Organization and Design moves forward into the post‎-PC era with new examples‎,‎ exercises‎,‎ and material highlighting the emergence of mobile computing and the cloud‎.‎ This generational change is emphasized and explored with updated content featuring tablet computers‎,‎ cloud infrastructure‎,‎ and the ARM ‎(‎mobile computing devices‎)‎ and x86 ‎(‎cloud computing‎)‎ architectures‎.‎ Because an understanding of modern hardware is essential to achieving good performance and energy efficiency‎,‎ this edition adds a new concrete example‎,‎ ‎"‎Going Faster‎,‎‎"‎ used throughout the text to demonstrate extremely effective optimization techniques‎.‎ Also new to this edition is discussion of the ‎"‎Eight Great Ideas‎"‎ of computer architecture‎.‎ 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.‎ Instructors looking for 4th Edition teaching materials should e‎-mail textbook@elsevier‎.‎com‎.‎ Includes new examples‎,‎ exercises‎,‎ and material highlighting the emergence of mobile computing and the Cloud‎.‎ Covers parallelism in depth with examples and content highlighting parallel hardware and software topics Features the Intel Core i7‎,‎ ARM Cortex‎-A8 and NVIDIA Fermi GPU as real‎-world examples throughout the book Adds a new concrete example‎,‎ ‎"‎Going Faster‎,‎‎"‎ to demonstrate how understanding hardware can inspire software optimizations that improve performance by 200 times‎.‎ Discusses and highlights the ‎"‎Eight Great Ideas‎"‎ of computer architecture‎:‎ Performance via Parallelism‎;‎ Performance via Pipelining‎;‎ Performance via Prediction‎;‎ Design for Moore‎'‎s Law‎;‎ Hierarchy of Memories‎;‎ Abstraction to Simplify Design‎;‎ Make the Common Case Fast‎;‎ and Dependability via Redundancy‎.‎ Includes a full set of updated and improved exercises‎.‎