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 ...

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 ...

While traditional single core systems employ a dedicated cache, theintroduction of multi-core platforms presents the opportunity toconsider the shared use of cache by multiple processors. Designs ...

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 ...

Mercury Systems, Inc. on Jan. 20 unveiled its EnsembleSeries ™ CIOE-1390 module for helicopters and urban air mobility vehicles. The new COM Express ®-based processor modules, which the company ...

The multi-core, 64-bit processors leverage ARMv8 compliant cores, which can operate at up to 3 GHz, and can reduce server costs and power by more than 50 percent, according to AppliedMicro. X-Gene ...

A new technical paper titled “Balancing Power and Performance With Task Dependencies in Multi-Core Systems” was published by researchers at TU Dresden. “The increasing use of FPGAs necessitates energy ...

SAN MATEO, Calif.--(BUSINESS WIRE)--SiFive, Inc., the leading provider of commercial RISC-V processor IP and silicon solutions, today announced that Dr. Yunsup Lee, CTO of SiFive, and Dr. Krste ...

Freescale Semiconductor (www.freescale.com) has introduced the MPC5121e (www.freescale. com /files/pr/mpc51xx.html), a 32-bit system-on-chip (SoC) optimized for high-performance, power-sensitive ...

Optimizing any system is a multi-layered problem, but when it involves a processor there are at least three levels to consider. Architects must be capable of thinking across these boundaries because ...