CPU cores suffer higher hardware errors
Published in PC Hardware


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
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Wednesday, 12 July 2017 06:00

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
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Monday, 20 February 2017 11:16

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
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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
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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.

Wednesday, 08 December 2010 12:06

Oracle halves cores on Sparc



Wants to improve thread performance
Wednesday, 22 September 2010 13:13

Users can't get enough cores

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