microprocessors
RSS microprocessorsWith Its New PowerXCell 8i Product Line, IBM Intends to Take Accelerated Processing Into the HPC Mainstream
White Paper Nothing reflects this more strongly than the fact that standards-based cluster sales based on x86 microprocessors were responsible for over 65% of the revenue generated in the HPC market in 2007, up from just a 20% share... [16 Sep 2009]
An Introduction to the Intel QuickPath Interconnect
White Paper With its high-bandwidth, low-latency characteristics, the Intel QuickPath Interconnect advances the processor bus evolution, unlocking the potential of next-generation microprocessors. The 25.6 GB/s of low-latency... [05 Aug 2009]
Orchid Technologies Engineering & Consulting Case Study: Elevator Controller
White Paper Orchid's primary challenge was to maintain a quiet operating environment for the control microprocessors while holding overall product cost to a minimum. The design of Elevator Control Systems presents a unique mix of... [01 Aug 2009]
OpenSPARC: An Open Platform for Hardware Reliability Experimentation
White Paper OpenSPARC is an open source community based around hardware design and experimentation aids for the UltraSPARC T1 and T2 Chip Multi-Threaded (CMT) microprocessors. The UltraSPARC T2 processor is the industry's first... [31 Jul 2009]
AMD Designs Next-Generation Processors With HP Servers
White Paper AMD deployed the HP BladeSystem with more than 2000 Opteron-based HP ProLiant BL465c servers in the server farm used for designing its new microprocessors. AMD is a leading global provider of innovative processing... [22 Jun 2009]
Hitachi Universal Storage PlatformV FICON Express 4 Mainframe Systems Performance: A Performance Brief
White Paper It says how without saturating the Microprocessors in the Host Channel PCB it have achieved read and write cache hit IO rates of 365K and 381K respectively, which shows the potential to achieve a half million IOPS. [11 Jun 2009]
Intel: From silicon company - to software company?
News Intel's primary business is developing, manufacturing and selling microprocessors but software has steadily risen in prominence. Thousands of its employees already work on software but Intel's agreement to acquire Wind... [05 Jun 2009]
Manufacturing, Competitiveness and Technological Leadership in the Semiconductor Industry
White Paper Advanced Micro Devices (AMD), the world's second largest producer of microprocessors, has announced its intent to build a new $4 billion-plus leading edge semiconductor foundry manufacturing facility in Saratoga County,... [29 May 2009]
Video: How the Microprocessor Has Changed Formula One Racing
White Paper Intel makes the highest-performance microprocessors in the world. Given the amount of data Intel collects and the speed with which the company has to reduce it and improve car performance, Formula One motor racing and... [02 Apr 2009]
Kurzweil and friends launch Silicon Valley university
News Among them, he said, are vacuum tubes, integrated circuits, chips and microprocessors. Starting this summer, some of the world's leading thinkers in exponentially growing technologies will be gathering annually at Nasa... [03 Feb 2009]
The Design and Performance of Real-Time Java Middleware
White Paper Over 90 percent of all microprocessors are now used for real-time and embedded applications. Since the behavior of these applications is often constrained by the physical world, it is important to devise higher-level... [03 Jan 2009]
"It's either Segways or Strangeways"
News The whole idea that the PC industry is good, better, best, faster microprocessors, more memory - that psychology of the PC industry is so yesterday. January There are very few companies that understand software. [23 Dec 2008]
Improving the Performance of Embedded Superscalar Microprocessors by Adding Partial Pipelines
White Paper This paper introduces adding a "Partial" pipeline to a base embedded superscalar microprocessor implementation to achieve cost effective performance improvements. This method is exemplified by adding a "Partial" Integer Pipeline (IP) to... [03 Dec 2008]
Adapting Processor Supply Voltage to Instruction-Level Parallelism
White Paper One promising technique to lowering power consumption of microprocessors is to reduce supply voltage and clock speed. Low power consumption is one of the most important design constraints for modern computer systems. [03 Dec 2008]
Evaluation of the Raw Microprocessor: An Exposed-Wire-Delay Architecture for ILP and Streams
White Paper Raw addresses the challenge of building a general-purpose architecture that performs well on a larger class of stream and embedded computing applications than existing microprocessors, while still running existing... [03 Dec 2008]
