Snapdragon processor naming convictions have become a lot more confusing recently, especially with the Snapdragon 7 series with new sub-variants. To summarize, we have three categories in the ...

Tensilica has delivered a range of processor architectures like the Xtensa LX (see Power Play For The SoC Developers) as well as DSP and the ConnX comm processor (see Dataplane Processing Unit More ...

Processors Intel signals the end for its 12th Gen Core processors, though the architecture lives on under the guise of its 13th and 14th Gen Memory Explainer: The RAMpocalypse is making memory, SSDs, ...

With growing interest in computer security and the protection of the code and data which execute on commodity computers, the amount of hardware security features in today’s processors has recently ...

In this week’s Sponsored Post, Suresh Aswani, Senior Manager, Solutions Marketing, at Hewlett Packard Enterprise, shares how to overcome the learning curve of new processor architectures. The ...

The Android operating system is built to run on three different types of processor architecture: Arm, Intel x86, and MIPS. The former is today’s ubiquitous architecture after Intel abandoned its ...

The recent IEEE International Solid State Circuits Conference (ISSCC) in San Francisco had numerous interesting advancements among the 210 papers presented. In the area of processors Renesas/Hitachi ...

Optimizing any system is a multi-layered problem, but when it involves a processor there are at least three levels to consider. Architects must be capable of thinking across these boundaries because ...

Defining what a processor is, and what it is supposed to do, is not always as easy as it sounds. In fact, companies are struggling with the implications of hundreds of heterogenous processing elements ...

Colorado Springs, Colo. — Texas Instruments Inc. has unveiled five derivatives of its UR8 processor architecture for digital subscriber line networks. The UR8–which combines a multimedia gateway ...