multicore

The purchase of Tensilica by Cadence Design Systems could prove the way that EDA and multicore-based system design come together.

The Multicore Association has published the MTAPI specification for a programming interface that aims to simplify the job of building applications that can not only use many cores running in parallel but schedule jobs dynamically depending on which types of core are available.

The Multicore Association has launched a guide to programming multicore systems in C and C++.

GlobalFoundries has signed deals to let the foundry offer power-saving clocks, a massively parallel floating-point processor and interface IP from Rambus. They are "uncommon solutions" to come from a foundry, the company claims.

Concern over energy consumption could be the key to European companies moving back into the compute server market – or at least that's what the European Commission and researchers think is possible as social networks, GPS data and public video cameras pour data into a growing collection of online storage banks.