April 2007 Archives

NetLogic Microsystems' latest knowledge-based processor, the NL8000, can achieve an impressive 1.2 billion decisions per second.

This is more than double the packet processing performance of the firm's last device and the trick is a dual-core technology and a first-of-its-kind ability to parse decisions into 64 unique processing elements.

Students in the Department of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) have used a PS3 to study the parallel processing capabilities of the Cell microprocessor.

No, these weren't gamers, but the first students on a course at MIT based on the workings of the microprocessor which was developed by IBM, Sony and Toshiba.