Today’s SOC (system-on-chip) processors integrate adiversity of cores, accelerators, and other processingelements. These heterogeneous multicore architecturesprovide increased computational capacity, ...

We've been watching the industry, as a whole, move from a focus on physical system performance, reliability, availability, cost, power consumption or some other attribute, to speaking about how ...

Virtualization companies, unwilling to see core products become a mere operating system feature, are signing deals to build them into hardware. Stephen Shankland worked at CNET from 1998 to 2024 and ...

In 2005, Apple announced the switch of the Mac platform from PowerPC to Intel processors (the first Intel-based models were available in early 2006). This introduced some interesting opportunities for ...

In the previous installment of the Virtualization Guide, I talked in general ways about the exculsive hardware access privileges that the OS reserves for itself. Now it's time to nuance that picture a ...

The Nitrox III security processor family offers 16 to 64 cores with virtualization hardware, a PCIe Generation 2 interface, as many as four compression engines, and 10 to 20W low-power-dissipation ...

As a user, some of you may be nonplussed by the two terminologies now appearing almost at every technical site: Cloud Computing and Virtualization. We had covered introductory articles on Cloud ...

Yesterday afternoon, I presented a web seminar "What is Desktop Virtualization and Why Hasn't it Taken Over the world?" for O'Reilly Media, the publishers of my book "Virtualization: A Manager's Guide ...