The company appears well positioned to challenge CPU incumbents with high performance RISC-V CPUs and Vector Extensions to the open ISA architecture. The RISC-V CPU Instruction Set Architecture (ISA) ...

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 ...

ClearSpeed Technology, a provider of low-power chip-based systems, has unveiled the CS301 processor, a multithreaded chip designed to improve performance and reduce power consumption for ...

FPGA-Based Embedded Processor Supports Europe’s Leading RTOS Standard San Jose, Calif., April 3, 2007—Altera Corporation’s (NASDAQ: ALTR) Nios® II embedded processor is now supported by Vector ...

The latest mobile phones already provide multiband and multimode operation on cellular networks. They use an increasing number of communication pipes for Wi-Fi connections, digital TV, digital audio ...

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 ...

Most chips today are built from a combination of customized logic blocks that deliver some special sauce, and off-the-shelf blocks for commonplace technologies such as I/O, memory controllers, etc.