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 ...

SAN MATEO, Calif. — Many companies whose sole aim was to provide intellectual-property (IP) cores have either bitten the dust or are about to do so. Others are reinventing themselves by doing things ...

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 ...

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 ...

A new render engine for Cinebench 2026 comes complete with wider support for CPUs and GPUs, as well as new features.

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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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

Intel Corp. plans to release a version of its Pentium desktop processor this year that can run up to four software tasks at the same time. Called the Pentium Processor Extreme Edition, the chip will ...