Microchip has announced its first 64bit processors, picking the RISC-V instruction set for the initial parts: an octa-core for space and a industrial quad-core. Although, “future PIC64 families will include devices based on RISC-V or Arm architectures”, said the company. PIC64-HPSC is the family name of the space processors, which have come out of a 2022 deal with NASA to ...
SiFive releases an open-source RISC-V architecture 64bit, quad-core application processor aimed at operating systems such as Linux.
Raspberry Pi 2 Model B is a 900MHz quad core computer with 1Gbyte of RAM, announced Eben Upton of the Raspberry Pi Foundation this morning. It remains credit card size, boot time has been halved, and the price is $35. “The new board will open up new design and development opportunities for users, and further the Foundation’s mission to bring ...
Shipments of notebook PCs configured with quad-core microprocessors will nearly quadruple from 2012 to 2016, according to a report from IHS
German embedded computer maker Kontron has put a high-end phone/tablet processor onto an industrial computer module.
A first taste of the processing performance which 4G smartphones will have in the next two years came from Qualcomm today at Mobile World Congress 2011 in Barcelona. The semiconductor supplier previewed its next generation Snapdragon mobile graphics processor which will have four cores each running at 2.5GHz. Today’s smartphones are based on a single core processor running at 1GHz. ...
Freescale has announced a ARM Cortex-A9 processor series including devices with four cores, each running at up to 1.2GHz. The processors will be part of the i.MX 6 series, which will...
ARM has available for general licensing a new version of its Mali series of graphics processing cores. The new Mali, called Mali-400, has four variants: single core, dual core triple core and four core. The four core can deliver a billion pixels a second or 30m triangles a second.
How effective in real terms has Intel been at cutting power consumption of its server chips?
AMD releases its long-awaited native quad-core processor, previously codenamed "Barcelona".
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