Is multithreading better than multi-core? Is multi-core better thanmultithreading? One might as well ask whether a diesel engine is betterthan four-wheel drive! The best vehicle for a given ...

There’s a lot of talk these days about multicore technology and multithreaded development. The trend toward multiple compute cores is growing and having a profound impact on developers across various ...

MIPS Technologies combines multithreaded and multicore support into its latest embedded SMP platform. As with most multithreaded designs, the MIPS32 1004K’s multithreaded support provides an ...

SAN MATEO, Calif. — Sun Microsystems Inc. and IBM Corp. last week disclosed plans to take high-end microprocessor design to the next level, separately describing new generations of multicore, ...

Systems-on-chip have ushered in an increasing use of concurrency, which the current generation of tools is not well suited to debug. Concurrency is used in SoC designs to increase the performance and ...

Former Ace’s writer Johan DeGalas has recently put up a good article on how the much-discussed, industry-wide move to multicore CPUs will affect PC and console gaming. The best part of the article, ...

Deadlocks, livelocks, and race conditions, oh my! The biggest challenge facing game companies right now is the problem of writing multithreaded code that fully supports the multiple-core architectures ...