David Courtright of MIPS Technologies examines what cores need formulti-CPU designs and examines how the MIPS32 M4K4 core has beendesigned specifically for these SOCs. The use of multiple CPUs in SOC ...

The speed race is over. Faced with the growing energy consumption andexcessive operating temperatures caused by high CPU clock speeds,microprocessor vendors have adopted a new approach to boosting ...

A lot of components have to work together to get the best performance out of a computer, but the most important is usually its processor. Intel's processor chips are in most of the computers you'll ...

The company says this is the last design before exascale, but it’s a big leap in its own right. Supercomputer maker Cray announced what it calls its last supercomputer architecture before entering the ...

The first commercial microprocessor was the Intel 4004, which was introduced in 1971. This device had a 4-bit CPU with a 4-bit data bus and a 12-bit address bus (the data and address buses were ...

Is multithreading better than multi-core? Is multi-core better thanmultithreading? One might as well ask whether a diesel engine is betterthan four-wheel drive! The best vehicle for a given ...