“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 ...

Multi-core interference can increase avionics system task execution times tenfold or more, according to Green Hills Software. “We definitely have some strong viewpoints on multi-core interference,” ...

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 ...

Do you remember the Transputer? Inmos introduced it back in the 1980s, when single-processor performance was seemingly going to peak. The initial Transputer had a single 20-MHz, 16-bit processing core ...