Nvidia expects to have used a billion RISC-V cores this year
It is not all about CUDA
By the end of the year Nvidia will have shipped a billion RISC-V cores under the bonnet of its GPUS.
CPU cores suffer higher hardware errors
Cores don't count. Things are getting worse, not better
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 after installation, and on specific, individual CPU cores rather than entire chips or a family of parts".
Windows 10 does not like a lot of cores
The more cores and the slower the mouse gets
Tech blogger Bruce Dawson has discovered that 24-core (48-thread) Windows 10 rig was having problems everytime he built Chrome.
AMD shows off die shots of Ryzen cores
And selfies of core complex modules
AMD has released some selfies of the upcoming Ryzen CPU line.
ISC Fujitsu builds supercomputer from ARMv8 cores
Will crush Chinese rivals
ISC Fujitsu is working on a supercomputer built around 64-bit ARMv8 cores and creating a machine which will clean the clock of the new crowned Chinese king of the supercomputers – Sunway TaihuLight machine.
More intelligent chip cores on the way
Synopsys releases AI core design
Synopsys, a company that licenses software and intellectual property to the biggest names in chip making, showed off a new image-processor core which it thinks could be the future.
Oracle halves cores on Sparc
Wants to improve thread performance
Users can't get enough cores
AMD claims