microprocessors
RSS microprocessorsGateway to stop buying AMD microprocessors
News Gateway is planning to stop purchasing microprocessors from chip manufacturer Advanced Micro Systems (AMD), according to the Wall Street Journal online. The PC company began releasing machines featuring AMD's chips in... [20 Sep 1999]
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]
Scalability of 3D-Integrated Arithmetic Units in High-Performance Microprocessors
White Paper Three-Dimensional integration provides a simultaneous improvement in wire-related delay and power consumption of microprocessor circuits. Prior work has looked at the performance, power, and area benefits of the 3D integration technology. [11 Jul 2008]
Design of a Data Recovery Block for Communications Over Power Distribution Networks of Microprocessors
White Paper This paper proposed the use of Power Distribution Network (PDN) of a microprocessor for ubiquitous access of internal nodes for test/debug and showed the suitability of impulse Ultra-WideBand (UWB) communications for the purpose. [07 Oct 2008]
Microarchitecture-Based Introspection: A Technique for Transient-Fault Tolerance in Microprocessors
White Paper This paper proposes Microarchitecture-Based Introspection (MBI), a transient-fault detection technique, which utilizes the wasted processing bandwidth during long-latency cache misses for redundant execution of the instruction stream. [08 May 2007]
Processor Power Management Features and Process Scheduler: Do We Need to Tie Them Together?
White Paper Power savings is a key focus area in today's microprocessors, with almost all latest microprocessors providing wide variety of power saving features. Processor P-state is the capability of running the... [25 Nov 2008]
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]
HP comes second in server race
News HP's new 'workhorse' can accommodate 16 microprocessors, and the basic configuration ships for $124,000. The server runs the HP-UX operating system - HP's version of Unix - on the company's proprietary PA-RISC 8700... [18 Sep 2001]
Green supercomputer is 'go' in Scotland
News Called Maxwell, the computer has been built at the University of Edinburgh and uses field programmable gate arrays (FPGA) in place of conventional microprocessors. FPGA chips differ from standard... [20 Mar 2007]
The Bloor Perspective: IBM goes large, Napster puts its case, and why Lane left Oracle
Comment ASCI White is powered by 8,192 microprocessors and has six terabytes of memory and 160TB of disk storage. MXT is a hardware solution that speeds up the performance of memory by placing the most frequently accessed data... [28 Aug 2000]
AMD to buy ATI for $5.4bn
News Beginning in 2008, AMD aims to create chip platforms that integrate microprocessors and graphics processors. Gomberg noted AMD has a track record in integrating technologies, showing an aptitude in integrating its... [24 Jul 2006]
Intel to release Banias on 12 March
News To date, Intel has not marketed bundles of chips but only microprocessors themselves. Until just a few years ago, though, Intel largely sold only microprocessors. By bundling its Wi-Fi modules with its... [07 Feb 2003]
Athlon: The beginning of the end
News AMD has one plant for manufacturing microprocessors, Crank said. AMD was regularly losing millions of dollars every quarter and seeing its market share in microprocessors steadily decline. The 3200+... [13 May 2003]
Intel unwraps budget Itaniums
News While the current Itanium 2 chips rank with the fastest microprocessors in the world, Intel is still overcoming a history of delays, customer indifference and a lack of software for the Itanium family. [08 Sep 2003]
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]
