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 ...
Intel (INTC) unveiled the Core Ultra Series 3 processors at CES 2026 as the first AI PC platform built on its Intel 18A ...
AMD also is updating its workstation-level Ryzen AI Max+ mobile processors with two new models: the 12-core Ryzen AI Max+ 392 and the eight-core Ryzen AI Max+ 388. They’re notable for a system-on-chip ...
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 ...
Discover how advanced processors enable AI workloads, high-performance graphics and energy efficiency across laptops, ...
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 ...
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 ...
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 ...
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 ...