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

2026 SIGMICRO Dissertation Award
Call for Nominations

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

  • Nominations due August 8, 2026 August 22, 2026
2026 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, 2026
2026 SIGMICRO Distinguished Service Award
Call for Nominations

Award for an individual who has contributed important service to the processor microarchitecture and microsystems community.

  • Nominations due July 13, 2026
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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 2026:

  • Flattened Butterfly Topology for On-Chip Networks (MICRO 2007)
    John Kim, James Balfour, Bill Dally
  • Stall-Time Fair Memory Access Scheduling for Chip Multiprocessors (MICRO 2007)
    Onur Mutlu, Thomas Moscibroda

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

Congratulations to the 2026 awardees for their sustained service, impactful dissertation research, and early-career excellence across the SIGMICRO community!

  • Lieven Eeckhout, 2026 SIGMICRO Distinguished Service Award
    For extraordinary leadership and community service in quantity and quality.
  • Rahul Bera, 2026 SIGMICRO Dissertation Award
    For Mitigating the Memory Bottleneck with Machine Learning-Driven and Data-Aware Microarchitectural Techniques.
  • Swamit Tannu, 2026 SIGMICRO Early Career Award
    For broad work in compilers, control systems, and error correction – establishing quantum computing as an area of computer architecture research.
  • Divya Mahajan, 2026 SIGMICRO Early Career Award (Honorable Mention)
    For broad and foundational work on the design of efficient AI accelerators and data center systems, and that work's impact on production AI infrastructure.

Read more about the Distinguished Service Award, Dissertation Award, and Early Career Award.

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.