I've been getting a fair number of questions about multi-threading the past couple of weeks. The reason is that Intel has been previewing its "Nehalem EX" Xeon processor in advance of Advanced Micro ...

Intel executives told the Microprocessor Forum last week that its simultaneous multi-threading techniques will run out of steam around 2006. But in the meantime, the company will continue to exploit ...

Wave Computing (Wave), Mobileye Vision Technologies Ltd (Mobileye), NetSpeed Systems, Inc. (NetSpeed), Fungible, Inc., ThinCI, Inc. (ThinCl), and Denso group company NSITEXE(NSITEXE), among others, ...

Haven't really put much thought into CPUs lately, but had this come up and I'm disappointed my Google-fu did not find a good answer I remember hyper-threading, where a core was 'pseudo-divided' into ...

For most of the past decade, Intel has followed a fairly steady set of rules when speccing out its Core i3, i5, and i7 processors. Until last year, Core i3 chips were dual-cores with Hyper-Threading ...

Sun Microsystems had been working on a new chip project, called the Rock, for five years. The multi-threading, multi-core SPARC chip was intended for such applications as heavy computation and big ...