MANHASSET, N.Y. — Startup picoChip Designs Ltd. (Bath, England) will de-cloak this week to reveal a massively parallel array of heterogeneous processors that it believes will jettison DSP, FPGA and ...

“Our Universal Processor does it all – CPU, GPU, DSP, FPGA – in one chip, one architecture,” says CEO Hyun Shin Cho. Ubitium believes that the wide variety of embedded processors can be replaced by a ...

German start-up Ubitium reports tape-out of a CGRA processor, which should be suitable for general-purpose computing as well as for AI and signal processing.

While most articles in this section discuss the reprogramming of graphics processors, other large arrays of processing elements are available as standard-product ICs for other applications. In some ...

ClearSpeed Technology, a provider of low-power chip-based systems, has unveiled the CS301 processor, a multithreaded chip designed to improve performance and reduce power consumption for ...

Fixed-architecture array processors, such as the vector-accelerator on the AltiVec PowerPC processor from Motorola and Intel's digital media processor (the MPX5800 and 5400), are another option. These ...

The word supercomputer gets thrown around quite a bit. The original Cray-1, for example, operated at about 150 MIPS and had about eight megabytes of memory. A modern Intel i7 CPU can hit almost ...