The quality of pre-silicon verification is a primary criterion for the successful implementation of today's ASICs. Increasingly, high development costs and the pressure to get to market quickly leave ...

In the realm of smartphone processors, Arm has historically played second fiddle to Apple‘s iPhone chipsets in terms of single-core CPU power. However, recent reports suggest that Arm is gearing up ...

Over the years there have been a few CPUs designed to directly run a high-level programming language, the most common approach being to build a physical manifestation of a portable code virtual ...

A new CPU design has won accolades for defeating the hacking efforts of nearly 600 experts during a DARPA challenge. Its approach could help us close side-channel vulnerabilities in the future. Share ...

A second-generation implementation of the Altera Nios processor architecture boosts the embeddable CPU core to a full 32-bit implementation. The company enhanced this core to implement many more ...

AMD is raising the stakes in the cloud market with a new family of server processors, code-named Bergamo. Each member contains up to 128 x86 CPU cores that excel when it comes to power efficiency. The ...