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The New PC From Hell

These days, setting up a new home computer is a job for an expert—if the average person can find one. Guess who?

EEMBC’s MultiBench Arrives

CPU Benchmarks: Not Just For ‘Benchmarketing’ Any More

Editorial: Tools for Multicore Processors

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AMCC’s Titan Core

AMCC and Intrinsity have joined forces to design a new Power Architecture core that reaches 2.0GHz while consuming only 2.5W.

Cavium Stalks Storage

Cavium Networks is entering the mainstream storage-processor market for the first time with two families of highly integrated multicore processors.

Processor Design Mistakes, Part 6

Overly Deep Pipelining—Too Much of a Good Thing

Structured ASICs: Dead or Alive? Part 2

Although structured ASICs offer system designers many advantages, they have failed to find a comfortable place in the system-designer’s toolkit. Despite the dismal picture painted in part 1, however, structured ASICs have found at least one viable market niche: FPGA replacement in volume applications. Compared with the FPGAs they replace, these structured ASICs run faster, consume less power, and cost less.

Freescale’s Multicore Makeover

New QorIQ Processors Will Eventually Supersede PowerQUICC Chips

Structured ASICs: Dead or Alive? Part 1

Structured ASICs offer system designers many advantages. Measured against standard-cell ASICs, structured ASICs promise lower mask costs and faster turnaround times. They should have found a comfortable place in the system designer’s toolkit. They didn’t.