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 ...
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 ...
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SAN Mateo, Calif. — IBM Corp. hopes to be the first microprocessor maker to deliver a multi-core, multithreaded CPU when it rolls out its Power5 chip next year. The dual-core chip will handle four ...
BERKELEY, Calif. &#151 Is multithreading better than multi-core? Is multi-core better than multithreading? The fact is that the best vehicle for a given application might have one, the other or both.
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 ...
More Than 650 European Universities and Research Institutions Invited to Develop Innovative Processor Designs Based on Sun Microsystems's OpenSPARC Technology Didcot, U.K. -- Santa Clara, Calif. -- ...
In 1998, Ask Ars was an early feature of the newly-launched Ars Technica. Now, as then, it’s all about your questions and our community’s answers. Each week, we’ll dig into our question bag, provide ...
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Semiconductor firm MIPS Technologies this week said it is preparing an upcoming off-the-shelf 64-bit microprocessor core to go with the 64-bit CPU architecture it currently licenses out to ...
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 ...