LSI Corp. has added a new Power PC processor and fast embedded DRAM cores to its library, claiming demand for custom silicon is on the rise in its core networking and storage markets. The company also is leveraging a 10 Gbit Ethernet core licensed from startup Teranetics and 40 and 28nm process technology from foundry [...]

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Marvell Technology said today that it’s figured out a way to deliver the first-ever quad-core ARM-based application processor for cell phones and other mobile devices. More cores equals more performance, of course, and Marvell says its quad-core ARM chips will deliver “gigahertz-plus” performance.
Currently Qualcomm’s Snapdragon chipset is the leader in ARM-based processors for phones, with [...]

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Although we have a few years before the next-generation of gaming consoles make their way into the market, Sony is stepping up its research for PlayStation 4 to better entice developers. According to Kotaku, Sony is looking to leave the Cell architecture for a more open and workable architecture. Supposedly developers are having issues tapping [...]

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Nvidia brushed off the technology lead that rival Advanced Micro Devices built by releasing the first graphics chips to support DirectX 11, saying the release only gives AMD a short-term advantage that won’t have a long-term effect on the graphics market.
The marginal advantage of beating Nvidia to market is overshadowed by wider changes in the [...]

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NVIDIA’s next generation CUDA architecture, code named “Fermi” is the most advanced GPU computing architecture ever built. Join us for a live webinar to learn about the new Tesla GPU Compute solutions built on Fermi and the dramatic performance capabilities they offer customers who are tackling the most difficult, compute-intensive problems. In addition [...]

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Intel Corp. is still exploring the future use of 3-D devices based on through-silicon vias (TSVs), but the company said that it has still not found the right application or “product intercept” for the technology.
Right now, chip makers are shipping limited 3-D devices based on TSVs, mainly CMOS image sensors, MEMS, and, to some degree, [...]

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As part of a company-wide goal of reaching sustained exascale performance by the end of the next decade, global supercomputer leader Cray Inc. (NASDAQ: CRAY) today announced the launch of its Exascale Research Initiative at the Cray Executive Forum Europe currently taking place in Frankfurt, Germany. This research initiative will explore new ideas and technologies [...]

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By Timothy Prickett Morgan
The Hybrid Multicore Consortium is on a mission that perhaps all of computing - on the desktop and in the data center - will one day embark on: making hybrid computing architectures as easy to program and use as monolithic platforms have been.
There is a growing consensus - but by no means [...]

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Sundance, the leading supplier and manufacturer of advanced digital signal processing and reconfigurable FPGA systems, today celebrates its 20th anniversary of design, manufacture and supply of multiprocessor systems. Thousands of systems have been shipped to customers across the world delivering hundreds of millions of gates and billions of MIPS processing performance. By consistently pushing the [...]

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Microsoft is making news at the Supercomputing 2009 (SC 09) conference in Portland, Oregon, and not merely for the free cocktails and flight simulator drawing attendees to its booth. It has announced the availability of betas for Windows HPC Server 2008 R2 and distributed Microsoft Office Excel 2010 for the cluster.
According to Vince Mendillo, Microsoft’s [...]

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Intel Corporation and NEC Corporation today have agreed to jointly develop High Performance Computing (HPC) system technologies that will push the boundaries of supercomputing performance. NEC will bring these technologies to market in future supercomputers based on the Intel® Xeon® processor. NEC’s expertise in this field coupled with the Intel Xeon processor’s outstanding performance and [...]

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Silicon foundry giant Taiwan Semiconductor Manufacturing Co. Ltd. (TSMC) is still having yield issues with its 40-nm process, according to analysts.
TSMC’s 40-nm yield problems surfaced earlier this year, but the company claimed it largely resolved the problem. However, during a conference call on Thursday, graphics chip maker Nvidia Corp. discussed 40-nm capacity and yield constraints [...]

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Wipro Technologies, the global IT services business of Wipro Limited today announced that it has formed a relationship with Microsoft to address the growing High Performance Computing (HPC) and parallel computing segment. Wipro will enable HPC customers to migrate to Windows HPC Server 2008 and parallelism on the Windows platform by offering services for application [...]

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There’ve been reports circulating around the internet that NVIDIA’s next-generation flagship Fermi-G300 GPU won’t be commercially available until next year, and NVIDIA has just officially confirmed about this.
NVIDIA’s CEO Jen-Hsun Huang said during quarterly conference call that the company would only ramp up production of Fermi in the company’s first quarter of fiscal year 2011 [...]

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Tatvik Technologies, a provider of high performance software codecs solutions for embedded devices and handhelds, has started providing “PC Codecs Series” of H.264 video and AAC Audio encoder and Decoder for PC server.
H.264 encoder/Decoder for PC server have been highly tuned to give best performance and best quality on multi core x86 CPU. High performance [...]

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Chip manufacturer STMicroelectronics has approved the use of the ARM’s Cortex-A9 MPCore multicore processor in its next generation digital television system-on-chip (SOC) integrated circuits as well as set top boxes.
However, ARM already offers its processor technology for a wide range of equipments manufactured by the STMicroelectronics, but the new agreement entails that the company’s next-generation [...]

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By Richard Adhikari
Intel and Numonyx, a company created by Intel and STMicro, say they’ve recently made significant headway in the development of phase change memory. PCM is a type of non-volatile computer memory, which means it does not require a constant power supply to retain information. Though the new developments aren’t ready for products yet, [...]

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By Stacey Higginbotham
Microsoft and Intel this summer both snapped up companies with technology that helps software developers build programs that take advantage of multicore chips. Last July I pulled together a list of five startups to watch in the multicore programming space, and prompted by Microsoft announcing on Monday (technically the first day of autumn) [...]

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A year ago Lucid announced the Hydra 100: a physical chip that could enable hardware multi-GPU without any pesky SLI/Crossfire software, game profiles or anything like that.
At a high level what Lucid’s technology does is intercept OpenGL/DirectX commands from the CPU to the GPU and load balance them across any number of GPUs. The final [...]

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Green Hills Software, Inc., the largest independent vendor of embedded software solutions, today announced its new Embedded Virtualization Business Unit, representing a significant investment and commitment to virtualization in the embedded and special-purpose computing market. The business unit’s flagship product, INTEGRITY Secure Virtualization (ISV), supports hosting of Windows, Linux, VxWorks and other general purpose operating [...]

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