The speed race is over. Faced with the growing energy consumption andexcessive operating temperatures caused by high CPU clock speeds,microprocessor vendors have adopted a new approach to boosting ...

We're in something of a transitional phase in computing at the moment, with multi-core processors threatening to take over the world. This is great news, because what could be better than having more ...

While traditional single core systems employ a dedicated cache, theintroduction of multi-core platforms presents the opportunity toconsider the shared use of cache by multiple processors. Designs ...

Editor’s Note: This is part two in our five-part series looking at the best software for running Windows on Intel-based Macs. Parallels ( ) came out in beta form in April of last year, not long after ...