A new whitepaper from NEC X delves into the world of unstructured data and explores how vector processors and their optimization software can help solve the challenges of wrangling the ever-growing ...

The latest mobile phones already provide multi-band and multi-mode operation on cellular networks. They use an increasing number of different communication pipes for WiFi connections, digital TV, ...

Cray plans to create a new supercomputing platform combining four types of processing capability in a blade server architecture. Cray Inc. plans to create a new supercomputing platform combining four ...

Ever since the “Aurora” vector processor designed by NEC was launched last year, we have been wondering if it might be used as a tool to accelerate workloads other than the traditional HPC simulation ...

For those not immediately familiar with RISC-V, it is a relatively new CPU architecture which takes advantage of Reduced Instruction Set Computer (RISC) principles. RISC-V is an open standard ...

“Our Universal Processor does it all – CPU, GPU, DSP, FPGA – in one chip, one architecture,” says CEO Hyun Shin Cho. Ubitium believes that the wide variety of embedded processors can be replaced by a ...

Processor vendors are starting to emphasize microarchitectural improvements and data movement over process node scaling, setting the stage for much bigger performance gains in devices that narrowly ...

While most articles in this section discuss the reprogramming of graphics processors, other large arrays of processing elements are available as standard-product ICs for other applications. In some ...