A well-funded chip startup, Soft Machines, is taking the popular but abstract concept of virtual machines and applying it to the chip level. Soft Machines is debuting what it calls a Virtual ...

Soft Machines demonstrated a 28nm dual-core version of their virtual core approach at the Linley Processor Conference. The 300-400MHz prototype chip ran 32-bit ARM software at performance levels that ...

The era of the big, muscular CPU is on the decline. The real trend is toward slicing and dicing cores virtually, one for each thread The current approach taken by x86 CPUs — to stuff as many processor ...

Soft Machines' goal with Variable Instruction Set Computing (VISC) is to break through the efficiency barriers that have prevented modern chips from realizing great architectural improvements. The ...

(Props to Ciconia, in another thread. I thought it deserved its own one.) I've always thought that it didn't matter to a ESXi VMs performance whether you assigned, say, one socket with two cores or ...

Microsoft will soon be offering virtual machines in its Azure cloud service based on AMD's Epyc processors. The growth of the cloud computing market has, until now, been a success story for Intel's ...

Intel has filed a patent for an interesting technique that would enable multiple cores to pair up via software management. Labeled as “Software defined super cores“, the 124-page patent filing details ...

The Virtual & Augmented Reality Interaction Core (VARI) provides state-of-the-art virtual reality (VR) and augmented reality (AR) hardware to perform neuroscience or social science research at the ...

The technology behind Hyper-Threaded, or HT, and multi-core processors enables processors to far exceed the performance of single-core, non-HT processors. The differences between the technologies are ...

PADUCAH, Ky.--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Despite limitations on in-person work and travel due to COVID-19, Computer Services, Inc. (CSI) (OTCQX: CSVI), a provider of end-to-end fintech and regtech solutions, ...