Your desktop has two, four, or even eight cores, but when’s the last time you’ve seen a multicore homebrew computer? [Jack] did just that, constructing the DUO Mega, a 16 core computer out of a ...

If you want read-only memory today, you might be tempted to use flash memory or, if you want old-school, maybe an EPROM. But there was a time when that wasn’t feasible. [Igor Brichkov] shows us how to ...

High performance computing specialist Silicon Graphics has created a concept computer called Molecule using mostly off-the-shelf consumer electronics components that packs in 10,000 cores into a ...

Computer engineers have developed hardware that allows programs to operate more efficiently by significantly boosting the speed at which the "cores" on a computer chip communicate with each other.

Windows includes a feature allowing you to force the operating system to utilize only a portion of the computer's available processor cores. If you are a software developer, this allows you to see how ...

Vivo on Wednesday announced OriginOS 6 for its handsets in the global markets, replacing the existing FuntouchOS. The Android 16-based operating system (OS) is claimed to “redefine” human-computer ...

Aiming to boost the performance of applications in the telecommunications, medical-engineering, and transportation industries, MEN Micro recently released a new 6U, CompactPCI single-board computer ...

Apple unleashed a pile of new Mac hardware on its users Tuesday: new 13" Retina MacBook Pros and Mac Minis using Intel's newest Ivy Bridge processors are available for shipping now, while ...

A recent presentation by Google engineer Peter Hochschild has revealed that chip design is going downhill and there are higher-than-expected hardware errors that "showed themselves sporadically, long ...

CERN, the European Organization for Nuclear Research, is contributing 10,000 computer cores to Folding@home, the project that's using distributed computing power to simulate the dynamics of proteins ...