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, ...

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 ...

Application defined processors are based on the concept of reconfigurable computing (RC). RC is a computing technology that blurs the line between software and hardware and provides the basis for the ...

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 ...