Tag Archives : Central processing unit

  Moore’s Law, coined by Intel cofounder Gordon Moore, says that every two years the density of transistors in the same space will double at the same time as features and functionality increases and cost decreases. Yesterday Intel unveiled its solution to bridge over this challenge and continue the process of optimization of its processors. [...]

A team of researchers from the Universities of Glasgow and Massachusetts Lowell has created a processor that contains one thousand cores on a single chip, with performance up to 20 times higher than the current equipment. For this, the scientists used a chip with the FPGA (Field Programmable Gate Array), which contains millions of transistors that [...]

AMD is betting that its new graphics chips offer the company a chance to recover ground lost to industry leader Intel. Although details on performance and cost of new chips have not been disclosed, some analysts say AMD’s strategy to highlight the graphics processors provides benefit to the company, while Intel is preparing to launch its new [...]

Google announced last Friday that the Chrome browser will use the hardware acceleration to perform some tasks faster. Thus, the company follows in the footsteps of its rivals, Microsoft, Apple and Mozilla, which already use this resource in their browsers Internet Explorer 9, Safari 5.0 and Firefox 4, respectively, with the first and last are still [...]

While companies like AMD and Intel are trying to compress 3, 4 or even 6 cores in their processors, the chip maker American Tilera announced today that it plans to manufacture and sell a model with 100 cores called Tile-Gx. The main purpose of these processors, said Anant Agarwal, co-founder and CTO of the company, will be for use in servers that perform [...]