microarchitecture
nounUK /ˌmaɪ.krəʊˈɑː.kɪ.tek.tʃə/
US /ˌmaɪ.kroʊˈɑːr.kə.tek.tʃɚ/
The detailed plan of how the tiny parts inside a computer chip work together.
The new chip's microarchitecture makes it faster without using more power.
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2. The study of very small structures in buildings or materials.
The course covered the microarchitecture of ancient stone joints.
3. The small-scale arrangement of parts in any engineered system.
Engineers studied the microarchitecture of the robot's hand.
4. The way a computer's instruction set is actually carried out by hardware.
Two processors can share an instruction set but have different microarchitectures.