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IEEE Spectrum January 2007 Harry Goldstein |
Cure for the Multicore Blues Michael McCool has the prescription for programmers paralyzed by parallel processing. |
IEEE Spectrum January 2011 Samuel K. Moore |
Multicore CPUs: Processor Proliferation Stanford professor Kunle Olukotun and his students designed the first general-purpose multicore CPU. This idea, more than any other in the past decade, is what has kept the semiconductor industry climbing the performance curve. |
IEEE Spectrum March 2008 Justin Mullins |
The Church of Microsoft The software maker tries to get ahead of the move to hundreds of processor cores per chip in a deal with the MareNostrum supercomputer |
InternetNews June 22, 2007 Andy Patrizio |
Multi-core! What Is It Good For? What's the killer app for multi-core? There is no single answer. |
IEEE Spectrum January 2009 Brian Santo & Sally Adee |
Winner: Multicore Made Simple Intel's Larrabee is a chip every designer already knows how to program |
IEEE Spectrum January 2006 Samuel K. Moore |
Winner: Multimedia Monster Cell's nine processors make it a supercomputer on a chip. Cell, which is shorthand for Cell Broadband Engine Architecture, is a US $400 million joint effort of IBM, Sony, and Toshiba. |
Wall Street & Technology March 19, 2007 Penny Crosman |
The High-Speed Arms Race on Wall Street Is Leading Firms to Tap High-Performance Computing Citigroup, Wachovia, Mellon and other major Wall Street firms seeking to take their high-performance computing grids to the next level are considering new products. |
InternetNews March 19, 2008 Stuart J. Johnston |
'WinTel' to Fund Parallel Computing Research Microsoft and Intel say they'll fund a pair of research centers aimed at high-end parallel computing. |
IEEE Spectrum February 2011 Peter Kogge |
Next-Generation Supercomputers Supercomputers are now running our search engines and social networks. But the heady days of stunning performance increases are over |
PC Magazine January 10, 2007 Cade Metz |
CPU Road Map 2007: Quad Core and More Intel's new quad-core processor? That's just a start. The big chip-makers are hard at work on the next generation of high-speed silicon -- and the generation after that... |
InternetNews June 12, 2009 Andy Patrizio |
Gartner: Cloud, New Chip Tech May Spur Rebound What will cloud computing and 3D chip manufacturing do for the industry? Quite a bit. |
BusinessWeek June 6, 2005 Otis Port |
Mighty Morphing Power Processors IBM and others are racing to create chameleon chips that change to suit the job. |
PC Magazine March 22, 2005 Michael J. Miller |
Two Cores Are Better than One This year, the high end of the market moves to microprocessors with multiple cores--single chips that contain the guts of two or more chips. |
InternetNews June 8, 2006 David Needle |
Intel Sees Multiple Multi-Core Future The move to multi-core goes beyond general purpose processors. |
Wall Street & Technology May 29, 2008 Greg MacSweeney |
Low-Latency Technology Outpacing Programmers' Capabilities As Wall Street turns to multicore processors to handle growing data volumes and reduce latency, firms are having a hard time finding programmers with expertise in writing code for parallel processing applications. |
IEEE Spectrum August 2012 Steve Furber |
Low-Power Chips to Model a Billion Neurons A miniature, massively parallel computer, powered by a million ARM processors, could produce the best brain simulations yet |
PC Magazine November 28, 2007 Domingo & Cheng |
CPU Road Map 2008: Maxing Out Moore's Law 2007's big stories were Intel's move from dual-core to multicore processors and AMD's move to 65 nm. We look ahead to see what's next for the dueling chip manufacturers. |
PC Magazine January 1, 2008 |
The Next 25 Years in Tech We've enlisted industry leaders as well as our own analysts and editors to share their fascinating visions of tomorrow's computing technology. |
InternetNews February 12, 2007 Andy Patrizio |
Intel Unveils Teraflop Processor Intel today showed off its latest science project, a teraflop processor with 80 cores that, while it will never be productized, will help the company in its future CPU projects. |
InternetNews May 6, 2004 Michael Singer |
Intel Takes 'Proactive' Approach to R&D CTO Pat Gelsinger charts a course for processors that use probability to anticipate a user's actions. |
InternetNews January 30, 2009 Andy Patrizio |
Gartner: Too Many Chips Spoil the Server Is it possible to have too many brains? Gartner finds multi-core chips are outpacing the growth skill of parallel programmers. |
IEEE Spectrum July 2012 Miguel Miranda |
The Threat of Semiconductor Variability As transistors shrink, the problem of chip variability grows |
InternetNews August 21, 2007 Andy Patrizio |
Multi-Core The Cool Factor at Hot Chips Conference The clock speed race is buried once and for all at Stanford, but programming these multi-core monsters remains an elusive art. |
The Motley Fool December 7, 2009 Eric Jhonsa |
Intel Puts Larrabee on Ice; NVIDIA and AMD Exhale The discrete graphics market remains a tough nut for the microprocessor king to crack. |
PC Magazine August 16, 2006 Cade Metz & Case |
Why Microchips Matter (Again) This is the year the microchip makes a comeback... Fastest PCs on the planet... Graphic chips reloaded... New processors from Intel and AMD tackle virtualization, letting one PC behave like many PCs... |
IEEE Spectrum May 2011 Keane & Kim |
Transistor Aging Measuring the degradation of microprocessors is tricky. Doing it better would unleash more processing power. |
IEEE Spectrum May 2009 Brian R. Santo |
25 Microchips That Shook the World A list of some of the most innovative, intriguing, and inspiring integrated circuits |
IEEE Spectrum May 2009 Guizzo & Santo |
The Runners-up: More Earthshaking Chips These 13 great little chips didn't make our list -- mainly because we ran out of space in print. And, well, one isn't even a chip |
PC World October 2, 2006 Christopher Null |
The Future of Your PC With breakthroughs such as faster multicore processors on the way, raw PC muscle is about to return with a vengeance. And it will come in more shapes and sizes than ever. |
PC Magazine March 6, 2007 Loyd Case |
Intel's Next-Generation Core2 Microprocessor Why Intel's new Penryn processor could be a major breakthrough for computing. |
IEEE Spectrum March 2010 Jonathan G. Koomey |
Outperforming Moore's Law The electrical efficiency of computing has risen faster, for a longer time, than computational speed and cost |
PC Magazine August 1, 2007 John C. Dvorak |
Where Are All The 'Concept' Computers? Intel is pushing the idea of the teraflop computer with something called tera-scale silicon. The resulting chip has 40 times the horsepower of today's best dual-core chip... Dell adds line of colorful laptops... |
Wired October 2006 George Gilder |
The Information Factories The desktop is dead. Welcome to the Internet cloud, where massive facilities across the globe will store all the data you'll ever use. |
InternetNews May 28, 2007 Clint Boulton |
For The Love of Multi-Core Pain RapidMind execs tout their application development platform for GPUs and multi-core processors. |
CIO February 1, 2002 Fred Hapgood |
Many Working Together Massively parallel processing is still looking for the mainstream... |
InternetNews March 26, 2004 Alexander Wolfe |
Is Moore's Law Headed for Repeal? A former Intel chip architect sees a design imperative beyond faster clock speeds. |
Wired May 2001 Paul Boutin |
Nextbox What's 16 times better than PS2? Sony's GScube... |
IEEE Spectrum January 2011 Willie D. Jones |
Chip Champs A sneak peak at the new top processors |
PC Magazine January 10, 2007 Jim Louderback |
Web Video Comes of Age Last year around this time, Web-based video was fresh and new. Now they feel like old friends. |
IEEE Spectrum April 2012 Rachel Courtland |
Six Paths to Longer Battery Life These six technologies could save on smartphone power |
BusinessWeek October 4, 2004 Stephen H. Wildstrom |
Those Superfast Chips: Too Darn Hot Cooling today's fastest chips is becoming a challenge in even the biggest desktop towers. |
PC Magazine August 12, 2011 |
Tech Icons Reflect on PC's 30th Anniversary Today marks the 30th anniversary of the PC, and the industry speaks. From Bill Gates to Meg Whitman, tech leaders, icons, and innovators talk about what the PC has meant to the world. |
IEEE Spectrum March 2009 Philip E. Ross |
Cloud Computing's Killer App: Gaming AMD's proposed online supercomputer will handle gaming graphics so your cellphone won't have to |
PC World August 28, 2001 Tom Mainelli |
Intel Previews 3.5-GHz Pentium 4 Also upcoming: functions to lengthen battery life, provide multiprocessor-like hyperthreading... |
IEEE Spectrum May 2008 Sally Adee |
The Hunt for the Kill Switch Are chip makers building electronic trapdoors in key military hardware? The Pentagon is making its biggest effort yet to find out |
IEEE Spectrum May 2009 |
My Favorite Chip From a Special Report: 25 Microchips That Shook the World. |
IEEE Spectrum May 2012 Rachel Courtland |
The Battle Between ARM and Intel Gets Real ARM servers and Intel smartphones are coming soon |
Military & Aerospace Electronics February 2010 John Keller |
Intel i7 microprocessor set to produce tectonic shift in industry The military embedded computer industry has been turning backflips since last month amidst the excitement surrounding the 7 Jan. introduction by microprocessor giant Intel Corp. of the latest versions of its Core i7, i5, and i3 processors at the International Consumer Electronics Show. |
InternetNews August 22, 2006 Andy Patrizio |
Intel, AMD Talk Hot Chips Annual semiconductor conference at Stanford sees both chip firms discussing future chip plans. |
IEEE Spectrum November 2008 Samuel K. Moore |
Multicore Is Bad News For Supercomputers Adding cores slows data-intensive applications. |