Processor vendors are starting to emphasize microarchitectural improvements and data movement over process node scaling, setting the stage for much bigger performance gains in devices that narrowly ...

There are some features in any architecture that are essential, foundational, and non-negotiable. Right up to the moment that some clever architect shows us that this is not so. What is true of ...

Tensilica has delivered a range of processor architectures like the Xtensa LX (see Power Play For The SoC Developers) as well as DSP and the ConnX comm processor (see Dataplane Processing Unit More ...

The Android operating system is built to run on three different types of processor architecture: Arm, Intel x86, and MIPS. The former is today’s ubiquitous architecture after Intel abandoned its ...

Despite continuous improvements and incremental upgrades with each new generation, processors haven't seen any industry-shifting advancements in a long time. The transition from vacuum tubes to ...

The British chip designer Arm Holdings Ltd. introduced a roadmap for its next-generation central processing unit architecture today. Its new breed of chips will be optimized for specialized workloads ...

In this week’s Sponsored Post, Suresh Aswani, Senior Manager, Solutions Marketing, at Hewlett Packard Enterprise, shares how to overcome the learning curve of new processor architectures. The ...

The recent IEEE International Solid State Circuits Conference (ISSCC) in San Francisco had numerous interesting advancements among the 210 papers presented. In the area of processors Renesas/Hitachi ...

New details have come to light about AMD's plans for future CPUs, with the latest rumors claiming that the AMD Zen 6 specs will include not two, but three types of cores. AMD is already using two ...

Defining what a processor is, and what it is supposed to do, is not always as easy as it sounds. In fact, companies are struggling with the implications of hundreds of heterogenous processing elements ...

Colorado Springs, Colo. — Texas Instruments Inc. has unveiled five derivatives of its UR8 processor architecture for digital subscriber line networks. The UR8–which combines a multimedia gateway ...