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Intel Goes on the Offensive

At ESC and IDF, Intel began discussing some details of the next two generations of processor cores for PCs and servers, referred to as Penryn and Nehalem.

Editorial: The Dread of Threads

Two technical papers from the University of California at Berkeley and some recent experiences with software bugs make us wonder if the computer industry is truly ready for multicore processors.

Multicore Multithreading With MIPS

MIPS Technologies is introducing the MIPS32 1004K Coherent Processing System, the first licensable IP to support hardware multithreading and up to four-way symmetric multiprocessing on a chip.

Sharing Your Experience

MPR Welcomes Technical and Business Contributions.

Embedded Systems Conference Highlights

Here’s a roundup of interesting microprocessor-related news from the spring Embedded Systems Conference in San Jose, California.

Processor Design Mistakes, Part 4

CISC and RISC Design Extremism Is a Vice

Low-Key Intel 80-Core Intro: The Tip of the Iceberg

Intel reveals 1TeraFLOP tile-based research processor that can be scaled beyond the boundaries of classic clock synchronization.

Intel’s Tiny Atom

New Low-Power Microarchitecture Rejuvenates the Embedded x86

Freescale Licenses Power Cores

Freescale Semiconductor is entering the processor-IP licensing market with four versions of the Power e200 embedded-processor core.