New Atlas

MIT's Swarm chip architecture boosts multi-core CPUs

For nearly 10 years, computer processors have been getting faster by using multiple cores rather than raising their individual speeds. This measure makes our PCs and smartphones more power-efficient, ...
Semiconductor Engineering

System enables large speedups — as much as 88-fold — on common parallel-computing algorithms (MIT)

Source: MIT/ CSAIL: Suvinay Subramanian, Mark C. Jeffrey, Maleen Abeydeera, Hyun Ryong Lee, Victor A. Ying, Joel Emer, Daniel Sanchez As is commonly known, the chips in most modern desktop computers ...
MIT Technology Review

Parallel Computing

Here are our picks for the advances to watch in the years ahead—and why we think they matter right now. Four ways to think about this year's reckoning. The Cybertruck, sycophantic AI, and humanoid ...
Electronic Design

Q&A: A Look Back and Ahead at Parallel Computing

We take a look back at the progress made in parallel computing with James Reinders, Parallel Programming Models Architect at Intel, who also shares his thoughts on how developers can get involved ...