Until the early 2000s, the computer processors available on the market were essentially all single-core chips. There were some niche layouts that used multiple processors on the same board for ...

Since 2005, computer CPU chip makers have increasingly adopted the use of multiple cores to increase performance. Each core runs a separate computing task, so the computer gets more work done. Before ...

As a precursor to our upcoming MSI K7D Master review we thought it would be a good idea to take a look at the underlying technology that makes the board possible, in particular the chipset. AMD are a ...

Multi-core technology is now coming to work for microcontroller designs. These designs offer higher performance and throughput capabilities for microcontrollers, and sometimes bring real time and ...

A new version of the company's 8051 Virtual Workshop enables users to debug and verify software for multi-processor systems in the absence of any target hardware. The new version supports the ...

Targeting optimized power efficiency and reduced design time, independent R&D organization IMEC has created a design flow for multi-processor-based multi-mode multimedia terminals to address the ...

Discussions about CPUs often frame one instruction set architecture (ISA) against another—x86 vs. Arm, Arm vs. RISC-V, and so on. However, it’s common to use multiple CPU architectures in a single ...

With mainstream processors going dual-core and soon quad-core, anyone with an interest in computing may want to read up on how multicore systems work. David Kanter has a good introduction to multicore ...