AUSTIN, Texas — The trade-off between instructions per cycle and the increasing emphasis on microprocessor clock frequency needs a thorough re-examination, said John Shen, director of Intel Corp.'s ...

The end of dramatic exponential growth in single-processor performance marks the end of the dominance of the single microprocessor in computing. The era of sequential computing must give way to a new ...

Part one of this two-part article discussed current trends impacting the evolution of data processing architectures, including the implications of higher transistor budgets afforded by Moore’s Law, ...

Scientists at the chipmaking giant hew to a dominant trend in microprocessor design: putting two chip cores, or "brains," into the same piece of silicon. Michael Kanellos is editor at large at CNET ...

Abstract: Driven by the motivation to expose instruction-level parallelism (ILP), microprocessor cores have evolved from simple, in-order pipelines into complex, superscalar out-of-order designs. By ...