When there is talked about modern CPUs and GPUs the terms SIMD processor, Stream processor and Vector processor often pops up. I have been trying to figure out how these terms relate but its unclear ...

Intel AVX-512 is the latest in a long history of x86 vector instruction sets. Vector instructions, commonly known as SIMD instructions, are special because they do more than one operation at a time.

For compute-intensive applications like 5G cellular and machine learning DNN/CNN, Xilinx’s new vector processor AI Engines are an array of VLIW SIMD high-performance processors that deliver up to 8X ...

As mentioned, SIMD processors have limited efficiency for the final image-processing steps that are either mainly serialized or require floating-point arithmetic. Additionally, when compared with ...

This story has been updated with new information since it originally ran. Japanese computer maker Fujitsu, which has four different processors under development at the same time aimed at different ...

The Cell processor consists of a general-purpose POWERPC processor core connected to eight special-purpose DSP cores. These DSP cores, which IBM calls "synergistic processing elements" (SPE), but I'm ...

In the high performance computing (HPC) world, there’s rarely such thing as a “free lunch” when it comes to coaxing top-end performance out of HPC technology. But that doesn’t make upgrade cycles any ...

The latest mobile phones already provide multi-band and multi-mode operation on cellular networks. They use an increasing number of different communication pipes for WiFi connections, digital TV, ...

The rumors that supercomputer maker Fujitsu would be dropping the Sparc architecture and moving to ARM cores for its next generation of supercomputers have been going around since last fall, and at ...