Continuous change in network speeds and services has forced network equipment designers and network-processor (NP) vendors to re-evaluate their designs. The quest is on for new and better ways to ...

Today more than ever, the worlds of networking and video are converging to create new embedded application possibilities. Yet only recently has a single processor been able to handle high quality ...

EZchip announced that it is shipping its NP-3 EZappliance, a compact hardware platform based on EZchip’s NP-3 30-Gigabit network processor. EZappliance is a powerful platform that utilizes the NP-3 ...

Following their march from standard processors to dual-core and quad-core designs in 2006, Intel Corp. researchers have built an 80-core chip that performs more than a teraflops (trillions of floating ...

The semiconductor industry increasingly needs more flexible and scalable processor architectures, driving the growing adoption of RISC-V. Originally developed at the University of California, Berkeley ...

Several weeks ago I wrote a couple blogs on the Cisco ASR 1000-series routers: one blog on the hardware architecture of the ASR 1000-series and a blog on Cisco IOS XE. Before finishing my little ...