Many high-performance DSP and general-purpose processors are equipped with SIMD (single-instruction, multiple data) hardware and instructions. SIMD enables processors to execute a single instruction ...

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 ...

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SIMD processors can manipulate large amounts of data in a highly efficient manner, enabling implementation of operations in software that conventional digital signal processors (DSPs) find cumbersome.

Is low-level programming a sin or a virtue? It depends. When programming for using vector processing on a modern processor, ideally I’d write some code in my favorite language and it would run as fast ...

Hertfordshire-based ARC International has added single instruction multiple data (SIMD) processor extensions to its Risc processor cores. “It’s aimed at media processing,” Peter Hutton v-p engineering ...

Both the Intel Xeon processor and the Intel Xeon Phi coprocessor continue to increase in performance as each generation is developed. To gain maximum performance from these architectures, it is ...