Previous
Intel Readies Massive Multicore Processors
News Intel is also tinkering with ways to let multicore chips share caches, pools of memory embedded in processors for rapid data access. Researchers at Intel are working on ways to mask the intricate functionality of massive multicore chips to make it...
[June 14, 2007, 13:32]
Google Acquires Software Start-up PeakStream
News Google has acquired PeakStream, a start-up that sells tools for writing software that can take advantage of multicore processors as well as graphics and gaming chips. Software is most often designed to run in a linear fashion on a single processing...
[June 6, 2007, 8:30]
IBM Plans Revamp Of Server Pricing
News New server technologies, such as multicore processors and virtualisation, have led IBM to begin radically revamping its server software pricing method. With the arrival of multicore processors, which feature two or more processing engines on a...
[July 25, 2006, 8:40]
Microsoft, Intel To Sponsor Multicore Research
News Microsoft and Intel are expected to launch a joint research initiative on Tuesday to tackle programming for multicore processors. Without writing programs to be optimised for multicore processors, applications will not benefit from the added chip...
[March 17, 2008, 14:26]
Intel Prepares To Reveal All
News Intel plans to provide details on a new generation of multicore processors at its biannual developer conference in two weeks - and in the process highlight how its chip families are coming back together.
[August 12, 2005, 9:20]
Oracle Cuts Fees In Multicore Shift
News In a move that counters Microsoft's growing database influence, Oracle has quietly cut software prices on some lower-end servers using multicore processors. The database software giant is effectively modernising its licensing policies to...
[March 2, 2007, 14:22]
VMware Takes Dual-core Licensing Plunge
News The move could worry other software vendors as they come to terms with the impact that the new generation of dual-core and multicore processors will have on their pricing strategies. The move is significant as the software industry tries to come to...
[August 17, 2005, 16:50]
Intel To Elaborate On New Multicore Processor
News So-called multicore designs that include several processors on the same chip are an increasingly popular way to use the ever-larger amounts of circuitry that advanced manufacturing processes permit, but other companies are slightly ahead of Intel...
[September 1, 2003, 10:25]
The Software Licensing Shake-up
News The catalyst for this shift is the emergence of a new approach to chip engineering: multicore processors. AMD and then Intel pushed the technology into the mainstream when they began to talk of manufacturing multicore processors in quantity.
[September 29, 2005, 15:45]
Start-up Software Harnesses Processing Power
News PeakStream's development software product will let programmers take advantage of three chip advancements, said chief executive Neil Knox: multicore processors, increasingly powerful graphics chips and the Cell Broadband Engine chip co-developed by...
[September 18, 2006, 9:45]
BEA Shifts Some Multicore Pricing
News Since their introduction, dual-core and multicore processors have attracted controversy, largely because suppliers have had difficulty pricing them. Multicore systems with four or more processors offer "huge advantages in performance", which is why...
[August 23, 2005, 17:35]
Sun Set To Redesign UltraSparc
News But as applications become less dependent on the underlying operating system and chip architecture, businesses will be able to more easily take advantage of multicore processors, Papadopoulos said. The systems will exploit so-called "multicore...
[February 24, 2003, 15:29]
Intel Unveils Developer Tools For Multicore Apps
News As we now deliver multicore processors to every machine on the planet, there's far more economic value for software developers to take advantage of it," Gelsinger pointed out. James highlighted an example of multicore use in healthcare, where...
[August 21, 2008, 10:42]
Oracle's Core Problem
Leader It's not likely that General Electric or Texaco will be running their businesses on games consoles any time soon, but it is absolutely guaranteed that the next five years will see servers make a complete transition to multicore processors.
[February 11, 2005, 12:30]
IBM Muddies Dual-core Pricing Waters
News The change in IBM's licensing practices demonstrates the variety of licensing practices among companies when it comes to multicore processors. Chip manufacturers endorse the idea that multicore processors are just the latest advance in chip...
[April 22, 2005, 9:10]
Sun's Fortran Replacement Goes Open Source
News Even though Fortress grew out of a US Defense Department-funded supercomputing project, it tackles a mainstream computing challenge, too: more easily extracting work from all those new processing engines appearing in multicore processors.
[January 15, 2007, 14:33]
Intel Shortens Dual-core Wait
News Nearly every company that offers processors has multicore ambitions. The company plans to offer multicore chips in all of its product lines in the near future. Overall, the company is working on working on more than 10 multicore processor projects...
[February 8, 2005, 8:25]
Drilling Into Dual Core
News At first glance, the benefits of multicore seem straightforward. The company now has 17 multicore projects in development, and says more than 85 percent of its chip sales will be multi-core by the end of next year.
[September 28, 2005, 17:25]
Sun Loads 16 Cores Into 'Rock' Chip
News Sun, already an aggressive advocate of multicore processing, will try to stay a step ahead of the game by putting 16 cores in its high-end Rock chip. Sun clearly has gone further with multicore approaches, even with Niagara and Niagara 2, than...
[December 8, 2006, 15:52]
Sun Brings UltraSparc IV To Low-end Servers
News Then, during 2006, Sun will bring out two new processors, another dual-core, dubbed Olympus, and a multicore chip capable of handling 32-threads, called Niagara. Using more-powerful multicore chips could enable Sun to offer similar or greater...
[September 13, 2004, 8:00]
