Important dates

4 September 2024
Applications open
3 December 2024
Applications close
2 January 2025
Research proposals due
12 February 2025
Notifications sent
1 October 2025
Course starts

News

We held our first official CASCADE event in March 2025 — a poster session displaying a selection of research in Computer Architecture within the Department. We don't yet have any students in CASCADE, since the first cohort will start in October 2025, so we invited everyone working in the broad area to present their posters. We had a great turnout of both presenters and attendees from a range of different companies coming to see the world-leading research we are doing here. Read more...

Arm is donating £3.5 million to enable 15 PhD students over the next five years to study at CASCADE — a dedicated new Computer Architecture and Semiconductor Design Centre.

The first three students to be supported by the Arm donation will begin their studies at the new Research Centre in the autumn of 2025. They will be followed by another three students each year for the following four years. Read more...

REACH conference

2024-11-11

Today marks the start of the inaugural REACH conference organised by the IET, which aims to bring together leaders in computer architecture to explore key trends and stimulate debate with engineers, technologists and researchers at the cutting edge of the technologies. Read more...

Applications open

2024-09-04

We're pleased to announce that applications to the Centre are now open! We're going to be welcoming our first cohort of students into the Department in October 2025, and we're looking for enthusiastic and motivated people to join us. Read more...

CASCADE launch

2024-06-18

At a special event in June 2024 we highlighted the work in Computer Architecture taking place in Cambridge — and discussed ways to build our future capacity in this field by creating this new Computer Architecture Research Centre for PhD students. Computer architecture is a critical area of computing: it underpins today's technologies and drives the next generation of computing systems. Read more...