Acknowledging the significant struggles that programmers face on the increasingly prevalent multicore chip formats, Intel Corp. Tuesday announced the availability of two software products, the Intel ...

BEIJING — Intel Corp is expanding its multicore programming effort in China, signing up another 35 universities to train students in multi-core development. That brings the total number to 37 ...

From a distance it looks like a game of hot potato. But this version is played by hardware and software engineers, who normally don’t have much to do with each other. The hardware engineers say you ...

Adding more cores is desirable to meet growing computing demands, but it could create more challenges for programmers writing code that enables applications to work effectively with multicore chips.

Adding more cores is desirable to meet growing computing demands, but it could create more challenges for programmers writing code that enables applications to work effectively with multicore chips.

Intel has acquired software company RapidMind in an effort to push development of programs that can exploit the power of Intel’s multicore processors, the company said Friday. The chip maker plans to ...

Programmers will need to 'future-proof' their code to keep up-to-date in case additional cores are added to a computing system, says Intel exec at the Multicore Expo Adding more cores is desirable to ...

The Multicore Association is establishing specifications for a programming model that will reduce the complexity involved in writing software for multicore chips used in smartphones, tablets and other ...

With the advent of multicore processors such as the Intel Core Duo, which is now commonplace in PCs, software developers must deal with a new wrinkle — getting software to be processed across multiple ...

Intel launches their largest open source effort ever: Thread Building Blocks 2.0. This is the first time the company has open-sourced a commercial product, but necessity is the mother of invention. As ...

Justin Rattner, CTO of Intel, sat down with our sister publication Electronic News a week ahead of the Intel Developers Forum to talk about the challenges of multicore architecture, a selection of ...

While many of us are just beginning to write parallel programs to use multicore, we can already see a crisis looming for those who use raw threads (p-threads or Windows threads) to implement ...