BEIJING — Intel Corp is expanding its multicore programming effort in China, signing up another 35 universities to train students in multi-core development. That brings the total number to 37 ...

Acknowledging the significant struggles that programmers face on the increasingly prevalent multicore chip formats, Intel Corp. Tuesday announced the availability of two software products, the Intel ...

Adding more cores is desirable to meet growing computing demands, but it could create more challenges for programmers writing code that enables applications to work effectively with multicore chips.

Programming the current crop of server, desktop, and laptop systems is relatively straightforward. However, things get a bit more challenging as the number of cores increases by an order of one or two ...

Concerned with the difficulty of programming for multicore chips, Microsoft and Intel will sponsor a lab to build frameworks for writing parallel software. Martin LaMonica is a senior writer covering ...

From a distance it looks like a game of hot potato. But this version is played by hardware and software engineers, who normally don’t have much to do with each other. The hardware engineers say you ...

Intel just picked up RapidMind, a company that specializes in making it easy for developers to optimize and program their applications for multicore processors. Their technology sounds a little bit ...

Intel announced today that they're open-sourcing their cross-platform Thread Building Blocks 2.0 (TBB) template library. While the company contributes code to open-source project like the Linux kernel ...

Adding more cores is desirable to meet growing computing demands, but it could create more challenges for programmers writing code that enables applications to work effectively with multicore chips.

Programmers will need to 'future-proof' their code to keep up-to-date in case additional cores are added to a computing system, says Intel exec at the Multicore Expo Adding more cores is desirable to ...