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 ...

Andes Technology, a supplier of high efficiency, low-power RISC-V processor cores, has announced the general availability of the high-performance AndesCore AX45MPV multicore vector processor IP. The ...

NEC Corporation is launching its SX series model SX-9, claiming it to be the world's fastest vector supercomputer with a peak processing performance of 839 TFLOPS (one trillion floating point ...

Hsinchu, Taiwan – Sep. 7, 2023 – Andes Technology, a leading supplier of high efficiency, low-power 32/64-bit RISC-V processor cores and Founding Premier member of RISC-V International, today proudly ...

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 ...

In part one of this article, we showed how video applications present opportunities for multiple forms of parallelism. We reviewed the hardware and software approaches for exploiting 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 ...