ARC Cores is announcing this week an extension to its instruction set architecture(ISA) that allows for 16-bit instructions on its 32-bit processors. Phil Barnard, product manager at ARC, said: ...
SAN JOSE, Calif. — Embedded systems designers are cozying up to the idea of implanting 64-bit processor engines into their system-on-chip (SoC) designs, at least in small doses. One company taking ...
"Award Winning" New SIMD Extensions Offer a 10x Improvement in Workload Compared to Non-SIMD Technologies FALL PROCESSOR FORUM, San Jose, Calif., October 25, 2005 – ARC International plc (LSE: ARK) ...
If you're a member of this or any other technology-based forum, odds are that you've noticed the several versions of Microsoft's latest offering, Windows Vista. If you haven't, well... please come out ...
ARM has updated its Thumb 16-bit microprocessor instruction set, allowing it to be used by operating systems and interrupts. Extra instructions in Thumb-2 can also be mixed with standard 32-bit ...
SAN JOSE — In a move to break embedded-processing bottlenecks and to clear at least one legal hurdle in a U.S. patent suit, Lexra Inc. today launched a new 32-bit RISC processor core that's optimized ...
Yesterday, Ars Reviews Editor Ron Amadeo told me he had observed some interesting activity in the GitHub repository for Android. Several commits made over the last couple of weeks have made extensive ...
Michael Kanellos is editor at large at CNET News.com, where he covers hardware, research and development, start-ups and the tech industry overseas. The planned move further blurs the distinction ...
Instructions? We don't need no stinkin' instructions! So, we've covered the memory addressing issues. We're done, right? Not even close. The memory issue is by far the most visible aspect of 64-bit ...