Rule number one for designers of portables: Optimize the power usage in embedded applications for long battery life and efficient cooling. A number of options exists to reach this goal, whether it's ...

The computing industry has reached a significant milestone with the ratification of the 1.0 RISC-V Vector Specification. This development marks the beginning of a new era in computing efficiency, as ...

Now that we’re getting comfortable with 5G, network operators are already planning for 5G-Advanced, release 18 of the 3GPP standard. The capabilities enabled by this new release—extended reality, ...

Some of the world’s most challenging algorithms can be worked out in mere moments by supercomputers, a type of computing technology which goes well beyond the processing power found in a typical ...

A search is underway across the industry to find the best way to speed up machine learning applications, and optimizing hardware for vector instructions is gaining traction as a key element in that ...

A new RISC-V Tensor Unit, based on fully customizable 64-bit cores, claims to provide a huge performance boost for artificial intelligence (AI) applications compared to just running software on scalar ...

Speed is essential in multimedia, graphics and signal processing. Sometimes programmers resort to assembly language to get every last bit of speed out of their machines. GCC offers an intermediate ...

Artificial intelligence (AI) processing rests on the use of vectorised data. In other words, AI turns real-world information into data that can be used to gain insight, searched for and manipulated.