Many of the developments in silicon, software and development tools that embedded engineers use today first appeared in disciplines other than embedded computing, and have been adopted and adapted ...

Is multithreading better than multi-core? Is multi-core better thanmultithreading? One might as well ask whether a diesel engine is betterthan four-wheel drive! The best vehicle for a given ...

Potentially substantial performance gains from the use of multithreading and multiprocessing architectures have captured the attention of designers of consumer devices and other electronic products.

MIPS Technologies Inc. will wield a new competitive weapon in the embedded-processor wars this week when it introduces hardware multithreading as an optional extension to its 32- and 64-bit ...