CIOs will soon be asked the $64,000 question: Do they need or even want 64-bit computing on their corporate desktops? Chip maker Advanced Micro Devices (AMD) is betting they do. The company launched ...

The winner of the PC Gamer Hardware Award for the best gaming CPU will be announced on New Year's Eve. It's obvious that AMD ...

The world's most energy-efficient processor from ARM? Yep, it's here, and it's the Cortex-M0+, aimed at low-cost MCU, sensor and control markets but destined to shake up way more than that. The ...

Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory has long been one of the world’s largest consumers of supercomputing capacity. With computing power of more than 200 petaflops, or 200 billion floating-point ...

This paper presents a new hardware/software partitioning methodology for SoCs. Target architecture is composed of a RISC host and one or more configurable microprocessors. First, a system is ...

A technical paper titled “Fault-Tolerant Hardware Acceleration for High-Performance Edge-Computing Nodes” was published by researchers at University of Rome. “High-performance embedded systems with ...

The processors in today’s computers have grown tremendously in performance, capabilities and complexity over the past decade. Clock speed has skyrocketed, and size has dwindled, even as the number of ...

Mark Hempstead owns shares in Intel Corp in a retirement account. He has received federal and industry funds for his research in power-management and computer architecture. Computers’ amazing ...