San Jose, Calif. – Media processors have struggled to gain wide acceptance, but their allure still proves too hard for some chip makers to resist. Clearspeed Technology Inc. (Los Gatos, Calif.), for ...

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ClearSpeed Technology, a provider of low-power chip-based systems, has unveiled the CS301 processor, a multithreaded chip designed to improve performance and reduce power consumption for ...

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image: ACM, the Association for Computing Machinery, today announced that Kunle Olukotun, a Professor at Stanford University, is the recipient of the ACM-IEEE CS Eckert-Mauchly Award for contributions ...

I've been getting a fair number of questions about multi-threading the past couple of weeks. The reason is that Intel has been previewing its "Nehalem EX" Xeon processor in advance of Advanced Micro ...

From the CPU’s perspective, a thread (short for “thread of execution”), is merely an ordered sequence of instructions that tell the computer what to do. In most of my articles on Ars and in my book, I ...

James Laudon is one of the authors, along with Kunle Olukotun and Lance Hammond, of the Chip Multiprocessor Architecture: Techniques to Improve Throughput and Latency book from Morgan & Claypool ...