Though the use of multiple processors has grown in recent years, multiprocessor computers are more than 30 years old. Since this time, their capabilities have evolved as much as their implementation.

SAN MATEO, Calif. — In an effort to ease the burden on engineers designing multiple-processor chips, Tensilica Inc. is readying a design environment that packs system-modeling tools, a shared-memory ...

"Businesses face huge challenges when it comes to managing global mobile workforces, network security, mountains of complex information, and sprawling networks of communications, and computing devices ...

Until the early 2000s, the computer processors available on the market were essentially all single-core chips. There were some niche layouts that used multiple processors on the same board for ...

EDN sister publication Electronic News, today ran an article, “Keyword for MPUs in 2005: Dual core” that both covers the rise of the consumer market for processors and the trend toward multicore ...

Middleware specialist Havok has announced that it is working on a new software solution that will enable its advanced physics, dynamics and animation systems to take full advantage of the ...

Hobby programmer here. I have a couple of non-critical questions that I can't find the answer to and can't personally figure out how they work. Hopefully someone could enlighten me. Both PS4 and XB1 ...

AMD warns of critical "SinkClose" vulnerability affecting multiple CPU generations, risking undetectable malware installation. The "SinkClose" flaw impacts AMD's EPYC, Ryzen, and Threadripper ...

Extron unveiled its new MGP 641 xi multi-window processors for scaling and presenting up to four 4K/60 source signals on a single canvas. Extron's exclusive Vector 4K scaling engine ensures downscaled ...

Imagination Technologies announced a new multi-core processor called "PowerVX SGX543" that could land in the next-generation iPhone this summer. Imagination manufactures the PowerVR MBX chip found in ...

OK this is more of a question for the sake of knowledge. Basically I am building a dual PII computer, and plan to put Linux on it. I am curios as to how Linux treats dual processors. I am not a ...