Microchip is aiming at ISO 26262 or IEC 61508 compliance with a functional safety variant of its 8bit AVR family that has two cores operating in lock-step. Called AVR SD, the devices have 32 or ...

Automotive SoCs have traditionally been single core, since not much computational work or high end applications were targeted on them. Automotives were simpler, so were the applications and so were ...

With its first-generation prototypes performing well, the company forges ahead on dual-core designs for late 2006 and beyond. Stephen Shankland worked at CNET from 1998 to 2024 and wrote about ...

Multi-core processor technology is having a big impact in the datacentre, with dual-core servers, in particular, now commonplace. Organisations are reaping a number of significant benefits, ...

Chip maker Freescale plans to launch a new line of low power, ARM-based chips in the coming months. The i.MX 6Solo, i.MX 6Dual, and i.MX 6Quad will all be based on ARM Cortex-A9 architecture, but as ...

Advanced Micro Devices Inc. today demonstrated its first dual-core microprocessors at its Austin office. Dual-core processors, which are set to hit the market next year, offer improved performance ...

A CPU chip that contains two distinct processing units that work in parallel. IBM introduced dual core Power 4 CPUs in 2000, followed by Sun and HP in 2004 and x86-based Pentiums in 2005. A year later ...