The longstanding technology trend of creating ever larger and faster processors started fragmenting several years ago when power-density and high-frequency design needs started becoming impediments.

LONDON — Despite moves by Intel Corp. and Advanced Micro Devices Inc. to bring their dual and four-core processors into embedded applications, there is a sense that some of the companies that ...

Fred Weber, CTO of AMD, is a man on a mission. Over the last several years he has helped to lead AMD out of the wilderness and into the promised land of 64-bits and multiple cores. I caught up with ...

When it comes to multiprocessing, what’s good for the hardware goose is not necessarily good for the software gander. The ideal hardware architecture for a multicore design is a heterogeneous ...