Energy conservation has become a key social objective in all aspects of our lives. Due to the pervasiveness of electronics and computing, the processor industry accounts for an ever increasing share ...

With the circuit density available in today’s ASIC designs, increased integration can complicate the design of a system-on-a-chip (SoC). IBM’s Customizable Control Processor addresses the ...

A Perspective in National Science Review outlines a new paradigm for fully automated processor chip design. By combining ...

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 ...

With so many available processor design options design teams must make the difficult decision to choose the solution that best fits their specific project requirements, while supporting extended ...

A breakthrough microchip specification language will allow ambiguous English to be replaced by a mathematically precise description of processor functions and design. Better yet, it applies to every ...

Today, if you want to build a high-performance computing device, you can almost certainly find all the software you need in a free and open form. The same is not true for the processor chips that run ...

The semiconductor industry is facing scaling limitations (if you haven’t yet, read our white paper on semiconductor scaling) for new applications that require efficient execution of algorithms for ...

“Disruptive products cannot be built from legacy chips,” Apple Senior Vice President of Hardware Technologies Johny Srouji said when he spoke at ITF World in Belgium in May. He was there to receive ...

AI is changing processor design in fundamental ways, combining customized processing elements for specific AI workloads with more traditional processors for other tasks. But the tradeoffs are ...

As part of their iPhone 5 announcement, Apple revealed that the new iPhone is powered by a new "A6" processor from Apple. The A6 is said to have twice the CPU power and twice the GPU power of the ...

The notion that Apple was neglecting the Mac has been absolutely demolished in recent years. Not only have we seen Apple shock the industry with its line of M1 processors, but we've also seen Apple ...