A new whitepaper from NEC X delves into the world of unstructured data and explores how vector processors and their optimization software can help solve the challenges of wrangling the ever-growing ...

The latest mobile phones already provide multi-band and multi-mode operation on cellular networks. They use an increasing number of different communication pipes for WiFi connections, digital TV, ...

Cray plans to create a new supercomputing platform combining four types of processing capability in a blade server architecture. Cray Inc. plans to create a new supercomputing platform combining four ...

Ever since the “Aurora” vector processor designed by NEC was launched last year, we have been wondering if it might be used as a tool to accelerate workloads other than the traditional HPC simulation ...

“Our Universal Processor does it all – CPU, GPU, DSP, FPGA – in one chip, one architecture,” says CEO Hyun Shin Cho. Ubitium believes that the wide variety of embedded processors can be replaced by a ...

The chip is the first universal RISC-V processor to replace the stack of specialized processors used in modern embedded ...

Tensilica has delivered a range of processor architectures like the Xtensa LX (see Power Play For The SoC Developers) as well as DSP and the ConnX comm processor (see Dataplane Processing Unit More ...

For those not immediately familiar with RISC-V, it is a relatively new CPU architecture which takes advantage of Reduced Instruction Set Computer (RISC) principles. RISC-V is an open standard ...

While most articles in this section discuss the reprogramming of graphics processors, other large arrays of processing elements are available as standard-product ICs for other applications. In some ...