For a long time now, researchers have been working on automating the process of breaking up otherwise single-threaded code to run on multiple processors by way of multiple threads. Results, although ...

At Intel research day last week, one of the most impressive things I've seen to date in the parallel programming arena leapt out on center stage. I blogged earlier this month about "The death of ...

Especially within the world of multi-threaded programming does atomic access become a crucial topic, as multiple execution contexts may seek to access the same memory locations at the same time. Yet ...

AMD has open sourced more than 3,000 routines in its AMD Performance Library for multi-threaded programming. These routines, which will make it easier to build media and other applications for ...

Speaking in a report on CNET, Intel’s director of gaming platform office Randy Stude said games companies are slowly increasing their handle on multi-threaded applications to run on PCs and consoles ...

"Why Apps Can't Run Faster" explained that just putting more and more cores in chips doesn't increase the processing speed of applications. This is because applications aren't typically designed to ...

Mobileye also uses the MIPS multi-threaded core in the chips inside the company's driver assistant systems - the EyeQ2 vision-based SoC series - for luxury cars such as the Volvo S60 and BMW. "MIPS' ...