CAMBRIDGE, England — Processor licensor ARM Holdings plc has launched a single instruction multiple data (SIMD) extension to its architecture called Neon. Neon addresses signal and media processing ...

ARC's Tangent-core processor is unique among microcontrollers, but companies are starting to move their microcontroller offerings in Tangent's direction. The ARC core provides 30 base instructions, ...

Instruction Set Simulators for processors and Transaction Level Models for other hardware blocks written in languages such as SystemC bring solution to these problems. Processor core of which ...

Every microprocessor is different, in part because it executes its own special set of instructions. Like human languages, CPU instruction sets have a lot of similarities; they just use different words ...

Processor IP developer Cortus has launched new cores– the APS23 and 25 – based on its V2 instruction set. The V2 instruction set extends functionality by adding 24bit instructions to the existing 16 ...

Intel and AMD took over the server processor market in the mid-2000s. This happened after AMD introduced 64-bit instructions into the x86 instruction set with its Opteron processor architecture.

Conexant to Expand on the Benefits of Flexible Length Instructions Santa Clara, Calif., October 16, 2002 – Tensilica, Inc., the leader in configurable and extensible processors, announced that Bill ...

Around the same time as 3DNow! instructions were developed, programmers were accustomed to using a model of ‘try and catch’ to check if a processor supported an instruction or instruction set.

Advanced Micro Devices announced the first in a series of planned extensions to its microprocessor instruction set that are designed to ease the development of multicore applications -- eventually.

Intel recently made an unprecedented public challenge to Microsoft and Qualcomm that basically told the latter two companies: if you ship an x86 instruction set architecture (ISA) emulator, we ...