SAN JOSE, Calif. — Computer microprocessor makers debated the merits of multithreading and hardware security at the Microprocessor Forum here Tuesday (Oct 14). Server CPU makers Fujitsu, IBM and Sun ...

SAN JOSE, Calif. — With instruction-level parallelism out of fashion and thread-level parallelism the buzzword du jour, Intel Corp. is proposing “pseudo-parallelism” as the next step in microprocessor ...

A new side-channel vulnerability has been discovered called PortSmash that uses a timing attack that to steal information from other processes running in the same CPU core with SMT/hyper-threading ...

Forward-looking: New research details a process that allows a CPU, GPU, and AI accelerator to work seamlessly in parallel on separate tasks. The pioneering breakthrough could provide blazing-fast, ...

The OpenBSD project announced today plans to disable support for Intel CPU hyper-threading due to security concerns regarding the theoretical threat of more "Spectre-class bugs." Hyper-threading (HT) ...

Intel said that it is facing a CPU shortage, particularly affecting the data center/server business, but that it expects the problem to peak this quarter and ease throughout the year.