With silicon clock scaling largely dead thanks to the laws of physics, computer scientists and chip designers have had to search for performance improvements in other areas -- typically by improving ...

Intel will preview a multicore future this week during the Fall Intel Developer Forum in San Francisco as it tries to leave behind a tumultuous year plagued by product delays and road-map revisions.

RapidMind Multi-core Development Platform 3.0 helps developers fully leverage the processing power of multi-core x86 chips RapidMind is announcing on Monday software intended to help developers ...

Buying multicore servers raises two new questions for enterprises: How do you avoid punitive software licensing, and which applications need multicore processors? Intel, Advanced Micro Devices and ...

The SEAforth-24 multicore processor promises to raise the performance-per-watt bar in embedded applications that need high speed and low power. The processor features 24 cores, each executing one high ...

"Businesses face huge challenges when it comes to managing global mobile workforces, network security, mountains of complex information, and sprawling networks of communications, and computing devices ...

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 ...