A new whitepaper from NEC X delves into the world of unstructured data and explores how vector processors and their optimization software can help solve the challenges of wrangling the ever-growing ...

Cray plans to create a new supercomputing platform combining four types of processing capability in a blade server architecture. Cray Inc. plans to create a new supercomputing platform combining four ...

The latest mobile phones already provide multi-band and multi-mode operation on cellular networks. They use an increasing number of different communication pipes for WiFi connections, digital TV, ...

Ever since the “Aurora” vector processor designed by NEC was launched last year, we have been wondering if it might be used as a tool to accelerate workloads other than the traditional HPC simulation ...

The chip is the first universal RISC-V processor to replace the stack of specialized processors used in modern embedded ...

For those not immediately familiar with RISC-V, it is a relatively new CPU architecture which takes advantage of Reduced Instruction Set Computer (RISC) principles. RISC-V is an open standard ...

Even as IBM directs attention to the arrival of its Blue Gene/L supercomputer, the company is quietly preparing a new twist on an older technology that will let it more directly compete with rivals ...

“Our Universal Processor does it all – CPU, GPU, DSP, FPGA – in one chip, one architecture,” says CEO Hyun Shin Cho. Ubitium believes that the wide variety of embedded processors can be replaced by a ...

In context: Arm might not have the same consumer desktop presence as Intel or AMD, but when it comes to smartphones, servers, and even new MacBooks, the company's processor architecture is essentially ...