Santa Clara, Calif.-based Intel said last week it will replace a multiprocessor platform scheduled for 2007 called Reidland with a new platform that will provide a dedicated bus from each CPU to the ...

AMD's next-generation 'Halo' APU seems likely to use bleeding-edge LPDDR6 memory for nearly double the bandwidth.

Data center consolidation and virtualization may be driving server implementations these days, but there's a much more fundamental shift occurring at the microprocessor platform level. Systems based ...

With half as many CPU cores as its flagship cousin, AMD’s Ryzen Threadripper 9970X ($2,499) is a lower-priced, lower-capacity processor than the leading Threadripper 9980X that still delivers extreme ...

With silicon clock scaling largely dead thanks to the laws of physics, computer scientists and chip designers have had to search for performance improvements in other areas -- typically by improving ...

Intel's Nova Lake flagship rumored to have eye-opening power usage — but I don't think this is anything to worry about (yet).

Intel will preview a multicore future this week during the Fall Intel Developer Forum in San Francisco as it tries to leave behind a tumultuous year plagued by product delays and road-map revisions.

The advent of Intel's new 14th-generation CPUs builds on the success of its 13th-generation Raptor Lake-based CPUs with higher clocks and, in some cases, higher core counts in tow. Meanwhile, AMD ...

RapidMind Multi-core Development Platform 3.0 helps developers fully leverage the processing power of multi-core x86 chips RapidMind is announcing on Monday software intended to help developers ...

If a few cores are good, then a lot of cores ought to be better. But when it comes to HPC this isn’t always the case, despite what the Top500 ranking – which is stacked with 64-core Epycs – would lead ...

Storage bandwidth trumped CPU horsepower for my productivity build ...

Sun Microsystems Inc. today released its next generation of multicore chip technology, the Niagara 2 processor, which it says more than doubles the performance of its predecessor chip. Sun also ...