Key to efficient hardware emulation is an efficient mapping to the underlying CPU’s opcodes. Here one is free to target ...

Many high-performance DSP and general-purpose processors are equipped with SIMD (single-instruction, multiple data) hardware and instructions. SIMD enables processors to execute a single instruction ...

SAN FRANCISCO--Intel on Wednesday began detailing a plan to add about 50 new instructions to its x86 chips, in an effort to speed up tasks including search, mathematical calculations and multimedia ...

Intel isn't taking news of Qualcomm and Microsoft's intent to emulate x86 lying down. The CPU manufacturer has made it clear that it intends to take legal action to stop unauthorized emulation ...

It’s been nearly 40 years since Intel introduced the first x86 microprocessor, the Intel 8086. Launched on June 8, 1978, the 8086 powered the first IBM Personal Computer and literally changed the ...

Advanced Micro Devices Inc. wants developers to start thinking about how they can speed up their software using new instructions that will appear in the company’s processors from 2009. The additions ...

In context: Advanced vector extensions are a type of "single instruction, multiple data" extension to the x86 instruction set architecture, implemented by Intel and AMD in modern CPUs. These ...

SUNNYVALE — Companies rarely make big news at financial analyst day events, but AMD bucked that trend Wednesday by unveiling details of its newly revamped roadmap, its two brand-new processor ...