News tagged with memory cores

Engineers boost computer processor performance by over 20 percent

Researchers from North Carolina State University have developed a new technique that allows graphics processing units (GPUs) and central processing units (CPUs) on a single chip to collaborate – boosting processor performance ...

Technology / Computer Sciences

created Feb 07, 2012 | popularity 4.7 / 5 (7) | comments 3 | with audio podcast

New Nokia phone no standout, but worth a look

The first of Nokia's new generation of smartphones isn't flashy and certainly isn't an iPhone killer. But it's a nice device, and at $40 with a two-year contract, a bargain.

Electronics / Consumer & Gadgets

created Feb 03, 2012 | popularity 1 / 5 (2) | comments 4

IBM Announces Highest Performance Embedded Processor for System-on-Chip Designs

IBM today announced the industry's highest performance, highest throughput processor for system-on-chip (SoC) product families in the communication, storage, consumer, and aerospace and defense markets.

Electronics / Hardware

created Sep 15, 2009 | popularity 4.5 / 5 (2) | comments 0

Project Whirlwind comes home

(PhysOrg.com) -- The Project Whirlwind Computer collection -- a compilation of pioneering digital computing research conducted at MIT in the 1940s and 1950s -- has been transferred back to the Institute from ...

Technology / Other

created May 25, 2009 | popularity 4 / 5 (1) | comments 0

NEC Develops a Three-Dimensional Chip-Stacked Flexible Memory

NEC Corporation announced today the development of chip-stacked flexible memory, which can be used to achieve a new system-on-chip (SoC) architecture. The new SoC's architecture consists of separate logic ...

Technology / Semiconductors

created Feb 10, 2009 | popularity 2.3 / 5 (3) | comments 0

More chip cores can mean slower supercomputing, simulation shows

(PhysOrg.com) -- The worldwide attempt to increase the speed of supercomputers merely by increasing the number of processor cores on individual chips unexpectedly worsens performance for many complex applications, ...

Technology / Computer Sciences

created Jan 14, 2009 | popularity 4.3 / 5 (6) | comments 3