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 ...

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 ...

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’ ...

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 ...

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 ...

Soft Machines, a late-stage semiconductor startup with substantial funding, has launched virtual CPU cores with better performance across the board than traditional architecture for the IoT, ...

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 ...

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.