AMD's Single Instruction Multiple Data (SIMD) instruction set, which has been known by the handle 3DNow! since 1998 is finally being put out to pasture. The chipmaker has said that SIMD won't be ...

CPU architectures in a single system, whether that is a single system-on-chip (SoC) or a larger electronics platform ...

Is low-level programming a sin or a virtue? It depends. When programming for using vector processing on a modern processor, ideally I’d write some code in my favorite language and it would run as fast ...

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We have a little more than a week to wait for Intel to release the new Core 2 range of CPUs. These are based on a new processor architecture, which, instead of just pumping up the CPU’s frequency, ...