Multi-core processors theoretically can run many threads of code in parallel, but some categories of operation currently bog down attempts to raise overall performance by parallelizing computing. Is ...

At July's Platform Conference in San Jose, fabless IP firm PACT Corp. of Munich, Germany, revealed plans to make the first derivative of its eXtreme processor platform (XPP) available for licensing.

One particular frustration with the UNIX shell is the inability to easily schedule multiple, concurrent tasks that fully utilize CPU cores presented on modern systems. The example of focus in this ...

In the last few years a number of start-up companies have announced massively parallel processors for embedded DSP applications. With their arrays of processing elements, these processors target ...

BURLINGAME, Calif.--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Quadric (quadric.io), an innovator in high-performance edge processing, has introduced a unified silicon and software platform that unlocks the power of on-device ...

PC components explained: learn what each part does, their functions, and how CPU, GPU, storage, and cooling impact ...

Until the early 2000s, the computer processors available on the market were essentially all single-core chips. There were some niche layouts that used multiple processors on the same board for ...

“Waferscale processor systems can provide the large number of cores, and memory bandwidth required by today’s highly parallel workloads. One approach to building waferscale systems is to use a chiplet ...

Multi-mode sensor processing – such as that for radar beamforming and for electro- optical (E-O) or infrared (IR) image processing – presents formidable computing problems. It requires extremely high ...