MIPS Technologies Inc. will wield a new competitive weapon in the embedded-processor wars this week when it introduces hardware multithreading as an optional extension to its 32- and 64-bit ...
But in the system-on-chip (SoC) world, there is another key reason to want hardware multithreading, said Tom Petersen, director of product marketing at MIPS (Mountain View, Calif.). Often, today's ...
These days, just developing a chip with a multi-core architecture doesn't necessarily equate to higher performance, since many mainstream applications are not multithreaded. As a result, big chip ...
The RISC-V open standard ISA (Instruction Set Architecture) offers developers the opportunity to configure the features and functions of a custom processor to uniquely address their target end ...
Hundreds of thousands of Grok chatbot chats, including sensitive data, were exposed on Google after xAI’s share feature leaked them. AI is rapidly moving beyond creating static videos to generating ...
Well, at least in one respect, that is, this is being why simultaneous multithreading (SMT) was abandoned. In a recent ...
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 ...