“With Moore's law, the raw performance of multi-core processors doubles with each new process geometry,” says Al Wegener, founder and CTO of Samplify Systems. “However, the sustained performance of ...

Intel is hoping to boost the market for its multi-core processors by turning a product that was designed to ease C++ programming into an open source project. The company last week announced the ...

Requirements for more processing power and for redundancy, especially in safety critical applications, is beginning to drive automotive industry demand for multi-core processors, according to Dr. Kay ...

This paper explores how Texas Instruments KeyStone multicore SoCs offload many software functions into hardware AccelerationPacs or other architectural elements to reduce the amount of software needed ...

Vendors are pushing the multicore envelope, aiming to boost performance, especially for multithreaded applications. Vendors are pushing the multicore envelope, aiming to boost performance, especially ...

With the advent of multicore processors such as the Intel Core Duo, which is now commonplace in PCs, software developers must deal with a new wrinkle — getting software to be processed across multiple ...

Gartner sounded a warning on Wednesday about the impact on software of the rapid growth of multicore chips and the number of threads each processor can handle. In a research note, the analysts argued ...

Since 2005, computer CPU chip makers have increasingly adopted the use of multiple cores to increase performance. Each core runs a separate computing task, so the computer gets more work done. Before ...

Download this article in PDF format. For many decades, software developers benefitted from being able to use the same software code while working with increasingly powerful hardware. As hardware ...

On Tuesday, the Redmond, Wash., software giant officially announced it would cede to wishes of both manufacturers and continue to license its server software on a per-processor basis rather than ...