I've been getting a fair number of questions about multi-threading the past couple of weeks. The reason is that Intel has been previewing its "Nehalem EX" Xeon processor in advance of Advanced Micro ...

Forward-looking: New research details a process that allows a CPU, GPU, and AI accelerator to work seamlessly in parallel on separate tasks. The pioneering breakthrough could provide blazing-fast, ...

IBM continues to enhance its IBM eServer pSeries line, and in 2004 plans tolaunch the POWER5 processor. POWER5-based systems will be four times asfast as IBM's current POWER4-based p690, introduced in ...

James Laudon is one of the authors, along with Kunle Olukotun and Lance Hammond, of the Chip Multiprocessor Architecture: Techniques to Improve Throughput and Latency book from Morgan & Claypool ...

New applications that servers must handle are often large and function-rich; they use many operating system services and access large databases. Not only does that make the instruction and data ...

The next generation of AMD processors could enjoy even more capable multithreaded performance with an improvement to simultaneous multithreading, called SM4. It would effectively give Zen 3-powered ...

Intel’s most recent financial update revealed a revenue drop in Q2 and conservative forecasts for the near term. In a memo from CEO Lip Bu Tan addressed to employees and later released externally, the ...

AMD has disclosed an execution unit scheduler contention side-channel vulnerability affecting Zen 1, Zen 2, and Zen 3 processors that use simultaneous multithreading (SMT). The security vulnerability ...