As smartphones integrate advanced imaging, on-device AI processing, and high performance gaming, mobile chipsets are required ...

Part one of this two-part article discussed current trends impacting the evolution of data processing architectures, including the implications of higher transistor budgets afforded by Moore’s Law, ...

This paper discusses two low-cost, low-power video processors for the mobile market. The first core is optimized for motion estimation acceleration. The second targets full video coding applications.

Micron’s Automata Processor (AP) uses a unique parallel processing technique that exploits the company’s memory technology (Fig. 1). The parallel processor is similar to an FPGA and a content ...

As Ebay wisely notes in its buying guide, "the CPU will limit how fast anything can occur in the system." That's an important fact to remember when choosing a processor for your computer. Although ...

Arm just announced a new processor core design aimed at processing data directly in storage devices. With approximately 85% market share of storage processors, this is an important market for Arm. The ...

In 1977, John Backus wrote a seminal paper titled, Can Programming Be Liberated From the von Neumann Style? In this paper, Backus defined the implications of what we refer to today as the “memory ...