It’s been a tough year for semiconductors. Between the millions of unbuilt cars and the delayed iPhones, the everyday consumer is developing an understanding of where the brains in their electronics ...

Adding more cores is desirable to meet growing computing demands, but it could create more challenges for programmers writing code that enables applications to work effectively with multicore chips.

With the advent of multicore processors such as the Intel Core Duo, which is now commonplace in PCs, software developers must deal with a new wrinkle — getting software to be processed across multiple ...

SAN FRANCISCO (11/04/2008) – With the advent of multicore processors such as the Intel Core Duo, which is now commonplace in PCs, software developers must deal with a new wrinkle — getting software to ...

Programmers will need to 'future-proof' their code to keep up-to-date in case additional cores are added to a computing system, says Intel exec at the Multicore Expo Adding more cores is desirable to ...

Although multicore technology offers a game-changing opportunity for improvements in processing performance and power efficiency, it also brings about many new design and programming challenges. As ...

As multicore processing architectures grow in popularity, suppliers are rolling out solutions to help engineers program the new breed of devices. PolyCore Software is offering a new version of its ...

Parallel programming exploits the capabilities of multicore systems by dividing computational tasks into concurrently executed subtasks. This approach is fundamental to maximising performance and ...

Over the last few years, the electronics industry has seen a varied range of exotic new multicore processor architectures, 54 at our last count. While many of the inventors of these fascinating ...

BANGALORE, INDIA: National Instruments announced the LabVIEW 8.6 some time ago, said to be the latest version of the graphical system design software platform for control, test and embedded system ...

Writing software that can simultaneously make use of multiple processors can be hard. Yet the advent of multicore processors--four cores per chip is now common--means that more and more software needs ...

A new evaluation of popular parallel programming languages finds that the C++ library provides the best combination of usability and performance Multicore programming is a tricky problem. Developers ...