Forbes contributors publish independent expert analyses and insights. I write about disruptive companies, technologies and usage models. Intel CEO Pat Gelsinger and AMD CEO Lisa Su have joined forces ...

ARM has introduced its first 64-bit microprocessor architecture, ARMv8, which should enable wider use of ARM chips in servers and other enterprise equipment and turn up the competitive heat on Intel.

ARM has unveiled a new processor architecture, which it claims is the world’s most energy efficient. ARM has unveiled a new processor architecture, which it claims is the world’s most energy efficient ...

Imagination Technologies latest 64-bit processor architecture targets high performance mobile applications. The Warrior Class I6400 (see the figure) is Imagination’s mid-range offering. It supports ...

Adding network services in a secure fashion to today's network infrastructure requires deploying a large number of separate devices. These can include a Layer 4+ switch, an anti-spam gateway, firewall ...

Computers’ amazing abilities to entertain people, help them work, and even respond to voice commands are, at their heart, the results of decades of technological development and innovation in ...

Many core processor architectures are common now but not so much when Tilera first started delivering their solution (see “Single Chip Packs In 100 VLIW Cores”). Since then, many other platforms have ...

An Instruction Set Architecture (ISA) defines the software interface through which for example a central processor unit (CPU) is controlled. Unlike early computer systems which didn’t define a ...

In March of 2003, Intel officially launched its Centrino mobile computing platform, at the center of which was a new x86 processor designed specifically for the mobile computing space: the Pentium M.