System-on-chip (SoC) designers face a difficult trade-off. On the one hand, they must deal with ever-increasing constraints on system costs and power consumption. On the other, they are being asked to ...

MUNICH, Germany — Infineon Technologies AG is planning to apply so-called 'multi-threading' technology to embedded processors and microcontrollers to achieve up to a tenfold improvement in performance ...

Potentially substantial performance gains from the use of multithreading and multiprocessing architectures have captured the attention of designers of consumer devices and other electronic products.

Is multithreading better than multi-core? Is multi-core better thanmultithreading? One might as well ask whether a diesel engine is betterthan four-wheel drive! The best vehicle for a given ...