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 ...

I was recently writing about AMD's new Zen architecture (now Ryzen), and Intel's Kaby Lake chips are coming out soon. I throw around a lot of technical jargon that can come off sounding like insane ...

With the continued integration of system functions onto a single chip and the push for more specialized functions like machine learning, the competition between processor architectures is heating up.

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

Snapdragon processor naming convictions have become a lot more confusing recently, especially with the Snapdragon 7 series with new sub-variants. To summarize, we have three categories in the ...

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 ...

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 ...

The laptops hitting store shelves in 2022 will have a lot of cores. Intel’s 12 th-gen Core processors for mobile, revealed at CES 2022 and starting to hit the streets now, pack up to 14 cores, and the ...

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