AMD is announcing plans to extend its CPU instruction set Tuesday to make it easier for software developers to exploit the power of multicore processors when building applications. The company’s ...

The Epiphany multicore processor IP is a 28 nm design with 64 independent RISC cores. The design is said to offer 70 GFlops/W and the processors can operate at up to 800 MHz. The fourth generation IP ...

Windows XP, Windows Vista, and Windows 7 show their multiprocessing mettle in our dual-core and quad-core performance tests They say you can never be too young, or too rich. Or too handsome or too ...

Santa Clara, Calif.-based Intel said last week it will replace a multiprocessor platform scheduled for 2007 called Reidland with a new platform that will provide a dedicated bus from each CPU to the ...

Freescale is targeting LTE applications with a new multicore processor family called QorIQ Qonverge. The 45nm QorIQ Qonverge combines an e500 Power core with a StarCore DSP along with additional ...

Back in January 2009, I published the first half of my groundbreaking study on multicore support under Microsoft Windows. The article featured an in-depth look at multicore/multiprocessor performance ...

The advent of Intel's new 14th-generation CPUs builds on the success of its 13th-generation Raptor Lake-based CPUs with higher clocks and, in some cases, higher core counts in tow. Meanwhile, AMD ...

As of Dec. 19, the Redwood Shores, Calif.-based database power started calculating each core of an Intel or Advanced Micro Devices multicore CPU as one-half of a CPU (each core times 0.50). Each ...

Advanced Micro Devices Inc. today announced the first facet of a plan to extend its microprocessor instruction set in order to make it easier for software developers to exploit the power of multicore ...