For many decades, software developers benefitted from being able to use the same software code while working with increasingly powerful hardware. As hardware manufacturers regularly improved the ...

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 ...

The British chip designer Arm Holdings Ltd. introduced a roadmap for its next-generation central processing unit architecture today. Its new breed of chips will be optimized for specialized workloads ...

For years, processors focused on performance, and that performance had little accountability to anything else. Performance still matters, but now it must be accountable to power. If small gains in ...

The design, verification, and implementation of a processor is the core competence of some companies, but others just want to whip up a small processor as quickly and cheaply as possible. What tools ...

Multi-host systems are increasing in popularity in next-generation communications and networking systems, not only to increase processing power but also to allow greater overall system reliability ...

Why Cortex-R CPU cores are becoming essential elements in vehicle design. The Harvard architecture of the Cortex-R5. Options available with the Cortex-R5. Not every computer system can cut it under ...

Discussions about CPUs often frame one instruction set architecture (ISA) against another—x86 vs. Arm, Arm vs. RISC-V, and so on. However, it’s common to use multiple CPU architectures in a single ...