So many people do not really understand that the heart of a CPU design is actually something referred to as the pipeline. This term basically ties into the way the actual CPU was designed to handle a load, each being a little different. Today, you will have a chance to take on an article in a three part series that will hopefully shed some light on this.

When looking at the architecture of the different CPUs used in desktop systems, whether a Pentium 4, Athlon 64, PowerPC 970FX, or PPC 7447, one of the things that differs on each CPU is the pipeline. Depending on the goal of the CPU design, the pipeline can be shallow or deep. In part one of our latest Technical Blackpaper, Hannibal covers the ins and outs of pipelining.