NetLogic Microsystems, Inc., a worldwide leader in high-performance intelligent semiconductor solutions for next-generation Internet networks, today announced the innovative XLP® II family of ...

"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 ...

Since 2005, computer CPU chip makers have increasingly adopted the use of multiple cores to increase performance. Each core runs a separate computing task, so the computer gets more work done. Before ...

Advancing its 32-bit leadership in the automotive and embedded markets, Freescale Semiconductor has introduced a highly integrated system-on-chip (SoC) processor optimized for high-performance, ...

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 ...

Promising major advances to multi-core architecture, startup Tilera Corp. today launched the TILE64, a processor containing 64 full-featured programmable cores. TILE64 is the first in a family of Tile ...

Mercury Systems, Inc. on Jan. 20 unveiled its EnsembleSeries ™ CIOE-1390 module for helicopters and urban air mobility vehicles. The new COM Express ®-based processor modules, which the company ...

Nextivity’s third generation Cel-Fi baseband processor, ARES, is a multi-core RISC processor built to power their next generation of digital Cel-Fi smart signal boosters. The new processor provides ...

If I have a computer with a 2.66GHz quad-core processor, will it run my software and games faster than my 3.2GHz single-core Pentium 4? Yes, quad-core CPUs are generally much faster than single-core ...

On Tuesday, the Redmond, Wash., software giant officially announced it would cede to wishes of both manufacturers and continue to license its server software on a per-processor basis rather than ...

A reader recently contacted us and asked a question worth answering in an article. How does Windows (and perhaps all OS's) take advantage of multiple cores? Alternatively, if this function is built ...

Can you remember when you received your first computer or device containing a CPU with more than one main processing core on the die? We’re guessing for many of you it was probably some time around ...