Looking for something to give all 4 cores in a C2Quad a good workout.<BR><BR>I recall there was a multi-core version of Prime95, but I understand that something called CPUBurn is better(?) But I'm ...

With silicon clock scaling largely dead thanks to the laws of physics, computer scientists and chip designers have had to search for performance improvements in other areas -- typically by improving ...

As of July 8, each core of new multi-core AMD or Intel processors will be licensed as if it were 75 percent of a CPU. CRN broke the news of the change on Wednesday. Oracle pricing and licensing guru ...

RapidMind Multi-core Development Platform 3.0 helps developers fully leverage the processing power of multi-core x86 chips RapidMind is announcing on Monday software intended to help developers ...

Enabling all cores of a processor can improve performance and multi-tasking capabilities, reduce the amount of energy consumed by the system, and improve the overall stability of the device, as the ...

In reviewing CPU and server benchmarks, you’ve undoubtedly noticed that testing covers both single-core and multi-core performance. Here’s the difference. In terms of raw performance, both are equally ...

Despite recent advancements and improved parallelism in multi-core CPU performance, there is still a big challenge to be solved relating to the scale-out of cloud applications. Put simply, Linux ...

Until now I've never really had enough cores in a box to worry too much about allocating multiple vCPU's but now that I have 2x6 core 5600 CPU's in my new vSphere hosts it's something I can consider.

Socionext has announced a partnership with Arm and TSMC to develop an innovative, power-optimized 32-core CPU chiplet in TSMC's 2nm silicon technology, enabling scalable performance for hyperscale ...

Marketing a CPU or any advanced processor not named Nvidia is getting much harder. Once upon a time there were two companies making data center CPUs, and marketing was simply "Ours is better than ...

Microsoft and Qualcomm are working together on the next-generation Snapdragon processor, the Snapdragon 8cx Gen 4. A new Geekbench benchmark suggests that Qualcomm’s new ARM CPU is finally catching up ...