All Android smartphones and all Apple iPhones use CPUs based on the Arm Instruction Set Architecture (ISA). An ISA defines the instruction set and outlines the design philosophy behind that ...

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Targeting enterprises that want to consolidate servers, the combination of ESX Server 2 and the Virtual SMP add-on lets IT get more bang for their server hardware buck, said Mike Mullany, senior ...

SANTA CLARA, Calif., April 09, 2025 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) -- Today, AMD (NASDAQ: AMD) announced the new Google Cloud C4D and H4D virtual machines (VMs) are powered by 5 th Gen AMD EPYC™ processors. The ...

The era of the big, muscular CPU is on the decline. The real trend is toward slicing and dicing cores virtually, one for each thread The current approach taken by x86 CPUs — to stuff as many processor ...

SANTA CLARA, Calif., April 09, 2025 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) -- Today, AMD (NASDAQ: AMD) announced the new Google Cloud C4D and H4D virtual machines (VMs) are powered by 5th Gen AMD EPYC™ processors. The ...

(Props to Ciconia, in another thread. I thought it deserved its own one.) I've always thought that it didn't matter to a ESXi VMs performance whether you assigned, say, one socket with two cores or ...

Cloud computing adoption has been estimated to grow at a rapid clip, by as much as 30% annually. From billions of new, connected consumer and commercial devices placing demand on cloud resources, to ...

Soft Machines has released new data on its VISC (Variable Instruction Set Computing) architecture, including performance data on how it should compare against current Intel and ARM CPUs. The company ...

Without getting them into our lab, we don’t know if all those performance boasts actually hold water. Fortunately, Gordon got ahold of some hard data and covered it in the latest PCWorld YouTube video ...

Ernie Smith is a former contributor to BizTech, an old-school blogger who specializes in side projects, and a tech history nut who researches vintage operating systems for fun. When it comes to ...