Intel started the pilot program for multicore programming at five of China's top universities, including Tsinghua University, Zhejiang University and Fudan University. As part of the expansion, Intel ...

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 ...

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 files a patent for software designed Super Cores, which are smaller cores working together as a bigger Super Core, enhancing single-threaded perf.

Chip makers and system builders have begun efforts to educate developers and provide them with better tools for multicore programming. A year ago, Intel and Microsoft said they would invest US$20 ...

Bringing new programming and debugging support to its latest multicore processors, Intel Corp. has announced new versions of its Thread Checker, Thread Profiler, VTune Performance Analyzer, and ...

Companies such as Intel, Microsoft, and Sun Microsystems are providing assistance with the multicore challenge and parallel programming.

Intel readies massive multicore processors Researchers work to mask intricate functionality of up-to-80-core chips, so hardware and software makers can more easily adapt to them.

Tera-scale computing Dual-core processors from Intel arrived in 2005, with quad-core processors following in 2006 and second-generation (Hi-K in 45 nm) quad-cores in 2007.

Two of Intel's existing multithreading tools, called Intel Thread Checker 3.0 and Intel Thread Profiler 3.0, add support for 64-bit processors and the Linux operating system, he said. Multicore ...

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.

As technology develops at a fast rate, a challenge for developers is to adapt to programming for multicore systems, said Doug Davis, vice president of the digital enterprise group at Intel, during ...