This month MIPS announced its first multi-threaded licensable core, the MIPS32 34K. The multi-threading capabilities of the 34K are highly unusual—not only in comparison to the other MIPS cores, but ...
Again, I tested this pretty extensivly back when Intel first released the hyperthreaded P4, mostly so I could explain to my customers what to expect. I have had several people say things like "I have ...
If I have a computer with a 2.66GHz quad-core processor, will it run my software and games faster than my 3.2GHz single-core Pentium 4? Yes, quad-core CPUs are generally much faster than single-core ...