The IEEE/ACMInternational Symposium on Microarchitecture® (MICRO)is the premier forum for the presentation and discussion of new ideas in microarchitecture, compilers, hardware/software interfaces, and the design of advanced computing and communication systems. The goal of MICRO is to bring together researchers in microarchitecture, compilers, and systems to foster technical exchange and advance the state of the art.

The MICRO community has long benefited from close interaction between academic researchers and industrial designers. We aim to continue and strengthen this tradition at the 59th International Symposium on Microarchitecture (MICRO 2026), which will be held in Athens, Greece.

New for MICRO 2026: In addition to the main research track, MICRO 2026 will feature its inaugural Industry Track, designed to highlight deep technical insights from real-world, production-focused architectural work. The Industry Track has a dedicated call for papers and a tailored review process to better accommodate industry-specific contributions.


We invite original research paper submissions related to (but not limited to) the following topics:

    Microarchitectural, architectural, compiler, and hybrid techniques for improving
        performance, power, and energy efficiency
        security, privacy, and reliability
        cost, complexity, and scalability
        programmer productivity, predictability, quality of service, and sustainability
    Processor, memory, and storage architectures
    Multicore and multiprocessor systems
    Instruction-, thread-, and data-level parallelism
    Prediction and Speculation mmchanisms
    Memory Hierarchy design
    Cloud and datacenter-scale computing
    IoT, mobile, and embedded architectures
    Interconnection networks, routers, and network interface architectures
    Accelerator-based, application-specific, and reconfigurable architectures
    Architectural support for programming languages, compilation, software development, virtualization, security, and privacy
    Architectures for emerging technologies and applications
    Architectural support for non-volatile/persistent memory
    Quantum computing
    In-/near-memory or in-/near-storage processing
    Effects of circuits and technology on architecture
    Architecture modeling, simulation and benchmarking methodologies
    Evaluation and measurement of real computing systems