The computing world today is in the middle of a revolution: mobile clients and cloud computing have emerged as the dominant paradigms driving programming and hardware innovation today. The Fifth Edition of Computer Architecture focuses on this dramatic shift, exploring the ways in which software and technology in the cloud are accessed by cell phones, tablets, laptops, and other mobile computing devices. Each chapter includes two real-world examples, one mobile and one datacenter, to illustrate this revolutionary change.

Fundamentals of quantitative design and analysis -- Memory hierarchy design -- Instruction-level parallelism and its exploitation -- Data-level parallelism in vector, SIMD, and GPU architectures -- Thread-level parallelism -- Warehouse-scale computers to exploit request-level and data-level parallelism -- Instruction set principles -- Review of memory hierarchy -- Pipelining: basic and intermediate concepts -- Online appendices. Storage systems -- Embedded systems -- Interconnection networks -- Vector processors in more depth -- Hardware and software for VLIW and EPIC -- Large-scale multiprocessors and scientific applications -- Computer arithmetic -- Survey of instruction set architectures -- Historical perspectives and references.