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 ...

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, ...

Intel has filed a patent for an interesting technique that would enable multiple cores to pair up via software management.

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 ...

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 ...

Adding more processing cores has emerged as the primary way of boosting performance of server and PC chips, but the benefits will be greatly diminished if the industry can’t overcome certain hardware ...

Ants and beetles have exoskeletons--and chips with 60 and 80 cores are going to need them as well. Researchers at Intel are working on ways to mask the intricate functionality of massive multicore ...

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 ...

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.

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 ...