BERKELEY, Calif. &#151 Is multithreading better than multi-core? Is multi-core better than multithreading? The fact is that the best vehicle for a given application might have one, the other or both.

What about real-world workloads?

In reviewing CPU and server benchmarks, you’ve undoubtedly noticed that testing covers both single-core and multi-core performance. Here’s the difference. In terms of raw performance, both are equally ...

Multi-core mania has definitely hit the embedded networking market, but as the dust begins to settle it has become clear that many important architectural details need to be examined closely before ...

The first smartphones with dual-core processors reached the market in 2010. Before that smartphones used single-core processors maxing out at around 1.4GHz. Since then the number of cores has grown ...

System-wide concerns in AI and automotive are forcing hardware and software teams to work together, but gaps still remain. Hardware and software engineers have a long history of working independently ...

Sun Microsystems Inc. is making the move to multicore chips in a big way, promising users a new breed of processor that appears to differ from anything discussed thus far by rivals such IBM Corp. and ...

CPU (Central Processing Unit) is the most important part of a computer. All the calculations needed to run a particular task or application on a computer are processed by the CPU. That’s why it is ...