Under normal circumstances, the CPU in your desktop PC generates modest amounts of heat; a smart fan on top of the CPU runs just fast enough to keep it cool. At this speed, you barely hear the fan.

The implementation of servers that utilize multicore processors is continuing to escalate as the requirements for more computing power evolves. The world of file-based manipulation and conversion is ...

Outfitting imaging, audio, embedded-modem, and video-surveillance applications, the second-generation CX92755 media processor supports advanced functionality including HD video encoding and decoding, ...

Multi-core processors theoretically can run many threads of code in parallel, but some categories of operation currently bog down attempts to raise overall performance by parallelizing computing. Is ...

After more than 50 years at the top of the heap, the CPU finally has some competition from an upstart called the SoC. For decades, you could walk into a shop and confidently pick out a new computer ...

The engineer can choose from a broad variety of discrete CPUs, processors, and ASSPs Today's system designer is faced with a variety of choices when selecting a processor for a communications platform ...

One of the difficulties of CPU reviews is that they represent the best time to evaluate new features and software -- while simultaneously representing the worst possible time to attempt to do a deep ...

Air coolers reign supreme.

Is your chip fast enough? Is it too fast? Systems engineers might be paying for more chip than they need, or they may be dangerously close to over-taxing their current processor. Take the guesswork ...

With so many available processor design options design teams must make the difficult decision to choose the solution that best fits their specific project requirements, while supporting extended ...

working better on GPUs than CPUs has gone to nVidia’s head. After they finished high-fiving each other and downing a combined 374 Coronas, they set in motion a plan to develop a CPU with GPU features.