Potentially substantial performance gains from the use of multithreading and multiprocessing architectures have captured the attention of designers of consumer devices and other electronic products.

The real change now affecting the embedded market is that the application software is also being asked to view the general purpose processor element using a multiprocessing paradigm so that this ...

Early next year, top-echelon power users will find out if two heads are better than one. That’s when Sun Microsystems Inc., IBM, Compaq Computer Corp., Hewlett-Packard Co. and others will start to ...

Since the early 2000s, the CPU industry has shifted from raw clock speed to core counts. Pat Gelsinger famously took the stage in 2002 and gave the talk the industry needed, stating processors needed ...

SANTA CLARA, Calif. — MIPS Technologies is using the stage of the Multicore Expo here this week to roll out its first licensable core geared for coherent multiprocessing. The MIPS 1004K can support up ...