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 ...

Ever since it became clear that AMD's Carrizo would be a mobile update with a focus on energy efficiency as opposed to raw performance, enthusiasts and investors have been hungry for details about the ...

MIPS Technologies, a company that has produced chips that have previously driven devices like TVs and set-top boxes, announced today its plans to offer the first IP core that combines a 64-bit ...

With the upcoming launch of Intel’s Prescott core looming on the horizon, the term “hyper-threading” is getting more and more play in the press as Intel prepares to kick its PR campaign into high gear ...

Last week, we brought you a review of the Ryzen 7 9700X, the latest release in a seemingly long line of rather boring new CPU launches that offer minor upgrades to existing products. In short, it’s ...

Over the weekend, developer CD Projekt Red rolled out a patch (v1.05) for Cyberpunk 2077 containing a whole bunch of fixes, improvements, and tweaks. One of the fixes is supposed to address the ...

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 ...

An exploit was released for a flaw existing in a process in CPUs called Simultaneous Multithreading (SMT). Yet another side-channel attack, this time dubbed PortSmash, has been discovered in CPUs. The ...