Driving individual processor performance to the limit in a given implementation technology is never easy or efficient. Faster clocks, deeper pipelines and bigger caches carry silicon area and power ...

Although snoopy virtual-bus approaches are the first step, hybrid snoopy-directory schemes will be the next trend in embedded coherence. Without a doubt, embedded systems-on-a-chip (SoCs) are becoming ...

Marvell has unveiled a new processor that it is aiming at cloud computing and other applications. The new processor is called the Armada XP and it is the industry's first quad-core ARM processor for ...