The concept of using multiple processors or processor cores to build systems has really taken on a life of its own lately. The au courant term is “multicore” although that term means different things ...
Discussions about CPUs often frame one instruction set architecture (ISA) against another—x86 vs. Arm, Arm vs. RISC-V, and so on. However, it’s common to use multiple CPU architectures in a single ...
October 25, 2013. Broadcom, a maker of semiconductors for wired and wireless communications, has announced the architecture for a new generation of multicore processors, featuring the industry's ...
Freescale Semiconductor introduces the QorIQ P4080 multicore processor – a highly advanced eight-core communications processor designed to set new standards for performance, power efficiency and ...
Hardware/software co-design has been a goal for several decades, but success has been limited. More recently, progress has been made in optimizing a processor as well as the addition of accelerators ...
SANTA CLARA, Calif.--(BUSINESS WIRE)--RSA Conference 2011 -- NetLogic Microsystems, Inc. [NASDAQ:NETL], a worldwide leader in high-performance intelligent semiconductor solutions for next-generation ...
For many decades, software developers benefitted from being able to use the same software code while working with increasingly powerful hardware. As hardware manufacturers regularly improved the ...