San Jose, Calif. – Application-directed arrays of programmable processors, such as those from picoChip Designs Ltd. (Bath, U.K.), live on the horns of a dilemma. They can be adaptable to changes in ...

ClearSpeed Technology, a provider of low-power chip-based systems, has unveiled the CS301 processor, a multithreaded chip designed to improve performance and reduce power consumption for ...

German start-up Ubitium reports tape-out of a CGRA processor, which should be suitable for general-purpose computing as well as for AI and signal processing.

While most articles in this section discuss the reprogramming of graphics processors, other large arrays of processing elements are available as standard-product ICs for other applications. In some ...

Researchers at the University of Chicago have demonstrated a key technology that could help scale up quantum computers, and used it to create a model with a record-breaking 512 qubits. The team ...

The Chimera core is a true programmable processor. Utilizing a proprietary instruction set, it employs a conventional seven-stage pipeline, issuing a single 64-bit instruction per cycle. The machine ...