ACM SIGMICRO

The ACM Special Interest Group on Microarchitecture

SIGMICRO is a community of researchers and practitioners interested broadly in the area of computer microarchitecture, including features permitting instruction-level parallelism and their related implications on compiler design. Become a member today!

chip layout (photo by Jason Leung on Unsplash)

Upcoming Events

2025 MICRO Dissertation Award
Call for Nominations

Award that recognizes excellent thesis research by doctoral candidates in the field of computer microarchitecture.

  • Nominations due August 24 September 10, 2025
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2025 SIGMICRO Early Career Award
Call for Nominations

Annual award that recognizes a young researcher who has made outstanding research contributions to the field of microarchitecture during the early part of their career.

  • Nominations due August 18, 2025
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2025 MICRO Test of Time Award
Call for Nominations

SIGMICRO-sponsored award for papers with a lasting impact from MICRO 2003 to MICRO 2007.

  • Nominations due June 27, 2025
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Recent News

The MICRO Test of Time (ToT) award recognizes the most influential papers published in prior sessions of the International Symposium on Microarchitecture®. Two papers were selected for 2025:

  • Die Stacking (3D) Microarchitecture (MICRO 2006)
    Bryan Black, Murali Annavaram, Ned Brekelbaum, John DeVale, Lei Jiang, Gabriel H. Loh, Don McCauley, Pat Morrow, Donald W. Nelson, Daniel Pantuso, Paul Reed, Jeff Rupley, Sadasivan Shankar, John Shen, Clair Webb
  • Optimizing NUCA Organizations and Wiring Alternatives for Large Caches with CACTI 6.0 (MICRO 2007)
    Naveen Muralimanohar, Rajeev Balasubramonian, Norman P. Jouppi

Congratulations to the winners! You can read brief citations about the impact and significance of their papers.

Congratulations to the 2025 awardees for their sustained service, impactful dissertations, and early-career excellence across the SIGMICRO community!

  • Scott Mahlke, 2025 SIGMICRO Distinguished Service Award
    Scott is being recognized for decades of service and for leading efforts to make and keep MICRO a top-tier conference.
  • Mohammad Bakhshalipour, 2025 SIGMICRO Dissertation Award
    Mohammad is being recognized for bridging real-time robotics and computer architecture.
  • Abdullah Giray Yağlıkçı, 2025 SIGMICRO Dissertation Award
    Abdullah is being recognized for enabling efficient and scalable DRAM read disturbance mitigation via new experimental insights into modern DRAM chips.
  • Esha Choukse, 2025 SIGMICRO Early Career Award
    Esha is being recognized for foundational contributions to hardware memory compression and to sustainable, efficient datacenter systems.

The MICRO Test of Time (ToT) award recognizes the most influential papers published in prior sessions of the International Symposium on Microarchitecture®. One winner was selected for 2024:

  • Utility-Based Cache Partitioning: A Low Overhead, High Performance, Runtime Mechanism to Partition Shared Caches (MICRO 2006)
    Moinuddin Qureshi, Yale Patt

Congratulations to the winners! You can read brief citations about the impact and significance of their paper.

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