Stealthy semiconductor design startup Soft Machines Inc., has come out with a Variable Instruction Set Computing (VISC) conceptual architecture that it says could usher in a new era of scaling and ...

Thus, an application binary compiled for a given processor will execute in an architecturally consistent way on the other processor. The key difference is in the micro-architecture. The ‘big’ ...

The British chip designer Arm Holdings Ltd. introduced a roadmap for its next-generation central processing unit architecture today.Its new breed of chips will be optimized for specialized workloa ...

My partner wants a new PC. Her use will be light (in the grand scheme of things) browsing the web, word processing and maybe playing films and music, but ...

A number of new CPU companies with aggressive many-core architectures have made headlines in the last 12 months -- but they aren't the solution to the underlying problem. There's no simple way to ...

We’ll also look at some simple ways to maximize Java multithreading performance on multi-CPU machines. Note: My tests indicate that JRE 1.1.7 does not use more than two CPUs when running pure ...

This processor architecture would be based on RISC as well, ... The VAX-11/782 was a dual CPU machine released in 1982 and the VAX-11/784 ... We’ve had multi-processor systems for “general use ...

The software will run on all forthcoming game platforms which sport multi-core or multi-threaded architecture - including the Xbox 360, the PlayStation 3, and new PCs from AMD and Intel.

Nimbus Data is claiming a new record for largest SSD, with 100TB of storage in a 3.5-inch form factor and a new multi-processor architecture.