“With Moore's law, the raw performance of multi-core processors doubles with each new process geometry,” says Al Wegener, founder and CTO of Samplify Systems. “However, the sustained performance of ...

Intel is hoping to boost the market for its multi-core processors by turning a product that was designed to ease C++ programming into an open source project. The company last week announced the ...

This paper explores how Texas Instruments KeyStone multicore SoCs offload many software functions into hardware AccelerationPacs or other architectural elements to reduce the amount of software needed ...

Multi-threaded applications are becoming more sophisticated as multicore and many core platforms become the norm even for embedded applications. I recently spoke with Andy Chou is, Co-Founder and ...

Multi-core interference can increase avionics system task execution times tenfold or more, according to Green Hills Software. “We definitely have some strong viewpoints on multi-core interference,” ...

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Do you remember the Transputer? Inmos introduced it back in the 1980s, when single-processor performance was seemingly going to peak. The initial Transputer had a single 20-MHz, 16-bit processing core ...