Last month, we reviewed the HP Z620 workstation and came away impressed with the system's performance and flexibility. Today, we're headed back to answer two additional questions. First, should ...

Like a juggler, embedded software must keep many balls in the air. Unlike the two-handed juggler, however, the real-time system often has only one CPU. Typical solutions are, of course, multitasking ...

Processor architectures are beginning to hit performance ceilings both in terms of shrinking substrate geometry and increasing clock speeds. Consequently, Engineers are having to look at other ways to ...

These days, just developing a chip with a multi-core architecture doesn't necessarily equate to higher performance, since many mainstream applications are not multithreaded. As a result, big chip ...

The popular comparison benchmark Cinebench has a new version. It explicitly includes a test for Simultaneous Multithreading.