Valve released the Steam Machine at long last, but this tiny gaming PC costs more than expected, given its budget-grade parts ...

Abstract: Simultaneous multithreading (SMT) processors can present significant throughput improvements over single-threaded (ST) processors thanks to sharing internal core resources among instructions ...

Abstract: Simultaneous multithreading processors are dominating the High Computing Performance market. Among these processors, those supporting only two threads are being the most widely deployed in ...

If you use virtual machines, there's reason to feel less-than-Zen about AMD's CPUs. Computer scientists affiliated with the CISPA Helmholtz Center for Information Security in Germany have found a ...

In the world of modern CPUs, speculative execution, where a processor guesses ahead on branches and executes instructions before the actual code path is confirmed, has long been recognized as a ...

In today’s world of high-performance and responsive software, concurrency is no longer a luxury — it’s a necessity. Whether you’re building a real-time trading engine, a game engine, or a simple web ...

An emerging ransomware cybercriminal group is putting its own twist on file encryption, with a Linux variant of its malware that can run up to 100 encryption threads in parallel and supports partial ...