Adding more cores is desirable to meet growing computing demands, but it could create more challenges for programmers writing code that enables applications to work effectively with multicore chips.

Adding more processing cores has emerged as the primary way of boosting performance of server and PC chips, but the benefits will be greatly diminished if the industry can’t overcome certain hardware ...

It’s been a tough year for semiconductors. Between the millions of unbuilt cars and the delayed iPhones, the everyday consumer is developing an understanding of where the brains in their electronics ...

BANGALORE, INDIA: National Instruments announced the LabVIEW 8.6 some time ago, said to be the latest version of the graphical system design software platform for control, test and embedded system ...

The Multicore Association has released a developer's guide to software programming for multicore designs. The Multicore Programming Practices (MPP) guide provides developers with a detailed set of ...

Over the last few years, the electronics industry has seen a varied range of exotic new multicore processor architectures, 54 at our last count. While many of the inventors of these fascinating ...

Pervasive Software's DataRush is one of a new generation of products and platforms that aim to simplify multithreaded programming for application developers. Gordon Haff is Red Hat's cloud evangelist ...

Most software today is still written for single-core chips and will need to be rewritten or updated to take advantage of the potential multicore chips offer Adding more processing cores has emerged as ...