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17 articles tagged as multi-core

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November 1, 2021 | 14:00

Inscryption Review

Welcome challenger. Why not sit down, and play a little game?

October 27, 2021 | 12:05

SilentiumPC Regnum RG6V TG Case Review

Budget in price, mainstream in aspiration.

October 21, 2021 | 09:43

Mozilla details Firefox multi-process roadmap

Begins testing second content process.

December 23, 2016 | 06:45

Students unveil 1,000-core 'KiloCore' processor

13.1W, 1.78GHz average peak clock.

June 20, 2016 | 14:04

Watch_Dogs specifications suggest many-core focus

Ubisoft is recommending eight CPU cores for its upcoming hacker-FPS, Watch Dogs.

October 3, 2013 | 09:54

MIT stings chip simulators with Hornet

MIT has released details of Hornet, a new processor simulator accurate to individual clock cycles.

March 2, 2012 | 12:49

Nvidia talks up dual-core power saving

Nvidia has released a white paper making the claim that dual-core CPUs can save power.

December 8, 2010 | 16:15

Intel releases 48-core processor

Intel has confirmed that "limited quantities" of an experimental processor featuring 48 physical cores will be shipping to academia this year, courtesy of its Tera-scale project.

April 8, 2010 | 09:49

IE9 preview brings GPGPU acceleration

Microsoft has released a platform preview of Internet Explorer 9, which brings a multi-core JavaScript engine and GPGPU graphics rendering to boost performance.

March 17, 2010 | 10:42

Editing Memory and Multi-core Programming

In a race dubbed 'the core wars', manufactures are stuffing more and more cores into CPUs. While more can only be a good thing, there's little point if the software they are running can't use them. Microsoft shares with us a possible piece of the puzzle to making full use of multi-core CPUs.

November 8, 2009 | 10:09

Intel buys parallelism companies

In order to boost development of multi-core aware applications, Intel has bought two software companies in the last month: parallelism specialists Rapidmind and Cilk.

August 24, 2009 | 10:02

Gigabyte Radeon HD 4850 1GB (GV-R485MC-1GH)

Passively cooling a Radeon HD 4850 is no mean feat and that's exactly what Gigabyte has done with the GV-R485MC-1GH graphics card. We have a look at the card and subject it to the Crysis Crunch to find out if the Multi-Core cooling solution is up to the task.

November 28, 2008 | 08:24

Intel: "code for thousands of cores"

Chip manufacturer Intel is advising developers to concentrate on coding for scalability, believing the future of computing lies in hundreds and thousands of processing cores.

July 2, 2008 | 08:21

Carmack shuns dedicated PPU cards

John Carmack has spoken out on the subject of dedicated physics cards and it's not good news for Ageia.

July 19, 2007 | 14:01

In defence of multi-core

Critics of quad-core and multi-core have been out in force this week. Is this new hardware overkill - too much, too soon? Wil Harris doesn't think so, and explains why the move to multi-core is crucial for the future of the industry.

November 5, 2006 | 12:06

Multi-core in the Source Engine

Valve is adding multi-core processor support to Half-Life 2's Source engine in time for the release of Kentsfield. We travelled to Seattle to talk to Gabe Newell and his team about what this will mean for gamers and hardware geeks, as well as examining a new benchmark tool created to show off what can be done.

November 2, 2006 | 04:18

Intel talks up 'Tera-Scale' computing

IDF SPRING 06: With teraflops of processor power and terabytes of data storage, Intel's Chief Technology Officer believes that some interesting times are ahead.

March 6, 2006 | 19:28

Gabe Newell talks dual core

The creator of Half Life 2 has been talking about how difficult it is to write software that uses multi-core technology, as seen in next-gen processors.

August 9, 2005 | 09:51