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Five Multicore Chip Startups to Watch

Posted on Sunday, August 31, 2008 at 6:23 PM by Malcolm

As semiconductor firms get around the limitations of making individual processors faster by putting more cores onto a single chip, the mindset of today's software developers and engineers mindset needs to adapt. For to really take advantage of multiple cores, a programmer needs to look at ways to make her code parallel, splitting jobs into different parts rather than the step-by step instructions delivered to single-core machines. There are also energy and communications issues that can constrain how far multicore can grow. This article give a list of startups that have the potential to stretch multicore processors to their very limit.






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Edited on: Saturday, September 06, 2008 4:49 PM

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