Apple and the Maclots are always talking about the "MHz myth". Why do they fail to acknowledge the GFLOPs myth? GFLOPs as a measure of performance (as used by Apple) is much less useful than ...

Altera Corporation is a pioneer of programmable logic solutions and enabling systems. They are a leader with FPGAs. The field-programmable gate array (FPGA) is a semiconductor device that can be ...

…specifically designed to accelerate critical algorithms in high-performance computing (HPC), mainstream and consumer applications. Leveraging the GPU design expertise of AMD’s Graphics Product Group, ...

The AT572D740 Diopsis dual processor system-on-chip includes an ARM7 microprocessor and a complex-domain 40-bit-precision VLIW floating-point DSP. The microprocessor executes 15 operations/cycle and ...

Performance and reliability are increasingly interdependent, according to Pradip Bose, manager, Department of Power- and Reliability-Aware Microarchitectures, IBM Thomas J. Watson Research Center. In ...

Colorado Springs, CO, June 23, 2003 - Atmel Corporation (Nasdaq: ATML) today introduced mAgic, the world's first complex domain, extended precision very long instruction word (VLIW) DSP core for SoC ...

DSPs must deliver higher throughputs to execute the more complex algorithms today's demanding systems require. In applications like high-end audio, imaging, and beamforming, they have to produce that ...

When a new flagship phone is announced, it’s not uncommon to hear “console-quality graphics”. And the contemporary consoles always have better graphics, why is that? A cynic might say “the SNES is a ...

Sony worked with AMD to produce a unique APU for the PlayStation 4 that contained a custom Radeon 7970M, which was itself a mobile variant of early 2011's desktop flagship HD 7970. Although there is ...