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A SystemC Transaction Level Model for the MIPS R3000 Processor
White Papers Processor cores in embedded applications build today the cornerstone of System-on-Chip designs. Among the most successful RISC (Reduced Instruction Set Computer) cores are the MIPS processors used in applications such as DVD, automotive, broadband...
[November 25, 2008, 23:00]
Intel to boost single-core performance
News Intel plans to increase the performance of individual cores in the Itanium processor, and not just increase the number of cores to it, says an Intel engineer. The processor was built on a manufacturing process with circuitry dimensions of 90nm and...
[October 3, 2007, 14:03]
Chip designers paint a brighter picture
News Chip designers bucked the semiconductor slump of 2001, increasing revenues from sales of technology such as processor cores by 25 percent, according to a new report from market researcher Gartner. Texas Instruments holds licenses to several ARM...
[May 1, 2002, 7:31]
Cell processor unveiled
News The chip that will run the next version of the PlayStation will have nine processor cores and run faster than 4GHz, the chip's designers revealed on Monday. The Cell cores have media-specific instructions baked in, but they are flexible and smart...
[February 8, 2005, 9:05]
AMD to curb quad-core power usage
News The processor, which AMD will discuss at the International Solid State Circuits Conference (ISSCC) in San Francisco, will sport a new version of AMD's PowerNow technology that will let all four cores simultaneously operate at different speeds...
[February 12, 2007, 9:29]
Intel's quad-core chip shines in testing
News Some media applications, such as video-editing software such as Adobe Systems' Premiere Pro, can immediately take advantage of the QX6700's four processor cores. But when it comes to serious multitasking — running two or three processor-intensive...
[November 3, 2006, 9:49]
Oracle's core problem
Leader Even a relatively low-power database program will give Oracle a run for its money if it can run in five hundred processor cores for the same price as Oracle running in thirty two. A core is equal to a CPU, and all cores are required to be licensed.
[February 11, 2005, 12:30]
Intel seeks profit in dual cores
News The two processor cores on a dual-core chip would also run at lower clock speeds, reducing overall power consumption, even compared with a single-core chip of similar performance, Otellini said. As next year comes to a close, Intel president Paul...
[May 14, 2004, 9:00]
Intel readies expanded chip lineup
News Presler, the successor to Smithfield, features two physically separate Cedar Mill processor cores in a single package. Some will have two cores on a single piece of silicon, while others will have one core.
[October 13, 2005, 12:40]
Multicore chips leave software trailing, warns Gartner
News In a research note, the analysts argued that software is struggling to keep pace with the fast growth of multicore processors, first from two and four cores per processor, and now to eight and even 32 cores in high-end servers.
[January 28, 2009, 16:02]
Big Blue to let Squadron fly at Sun and HP
News At the top end, a p5-595 with the maximum 64 1.9GHz processor cores will cost $4.13m, Freund said. The new servers are the biggest iron in IBM's "Squadron" family of servers using the Power5 processor, a chip that has two processing engines, or...
[October 15, 2004, 9:20]
Intel's Nehalem to reintroduce hyperthreading
News In the past, Intel executives have spoken in broad terms about integrating components such as the memory controller and direct links between processor cores. Intel also plans to build chips with "point-to-point" links that directly connect...
[March 29, 2007, 8:53]
Chipmakers aim to unclog data paths
News The company has invented a 64-core processor with an embedded high-speed network that can pass up to 32 terabits of data a second between the various cores. If you are going to build processors with large numbers of cores, argues Anant Agarwal, you...
[August 20, 2007, 11:01]
Sun chip to mix old and new
News Gemini, the first chip in a new line of "h series" microprocessors to be launched in 2004, will fit two processor cores -- the brain inside a chip -- into the same piece of silicon, said Harlan McGhan, strategic marketing manager of UltraSparc at...
[August 18, 2003, 10:10]
Workloads for Niagara: Customer Deployments of Sun Niagara CMT Systems One Year On
White Papers Each processor contains eight cores, and each of those cores supports four threads, or streams, of jobs. This paper explores customer adoption of the Niagara processor since its market introduction in December 2005, focusing on the range of...
[September 11, 2007, 1:00]
Barcelona may not cure AMD's complaint
News AMD's best hope is to get Barcelona's clock speeds up to higher levels as quickly as possible, which could unlock the advantages of putting all the cores on the same processor die. Over a year in the making, and six months later than expected...
[September 10, 2007, 9:28]
Sun loads 16 cores into 'Rock' chip
News Among competitors, Intel just moved to quad-core designs by mounting two silicon chips in a single processor package, and AMD's "Barcelona", with four cores on one slice of silicon, is due in mid-2007.
[December 8, 2006, 15:52]
Sun refreshes server lines
News The T1000 costs $3,245 (£1,860) for a model with a 1GHz processor with six cores, 2GB of memory, no operating system and no hard drive. Spending $4,995 will get a six-core system with 8GB of memory, an 80MB hard drive and Solaris 10; spending $7...
[April 12, 2006, 10:20]
Sun's high hopes for Niagara
News Niagara has eight cores, each able to simultaneously execute four instruction sequences, called threads. Marc Tremblay, a vice president and chief architect at Sun, argues that Niagara - due in systems to arrive in early 2006 at the latest...
[October 27, 2005, 17:00]
Intel and the correct use of power
Blog Four cores running at 2GHz, taking about ten watts apiece, and if you're running software that uses all four cores equally then that's how it's going to be. Use fewer cores, and giant transistors inside the chip forcibly disconnect the idlers from...
[September 23, 2009, 23:38]
