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CPU (Central Processing Unit)

the brain of a COMPUTER which stores and processes data.

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Given the 40,000 logic blocks inside an FPGA, this yields a peak processing capability of 2 trillion tasks per second--more than 600 times as many as today's fastest CPUs are capable of achieving (as of this writing, Intel's fastest microprocessor rated 3.

Scalable network storage architectures

The benchmark measures the performance of CPUs, caches, memory

SERVER'S ABILITY TO SCALE FROM 8-16 CPUS CREATES HEAD ROOM

The motherboard is the main printed circuit board in a PC that contains the bus, CPU and controller chips for other devices such as the video display and CD-ROM drive.

Out with the old, and in with the new

6 GB/s of aggregate CPU to CPU, CPU to I/O bandwidth in a highly efficient point-to-point, daisy-chain topology that replaces complex multi-level, multi-line buses and extends from chip-to-chip to chassis-to-chassis applications.

HyperTransport Consortium Maintains Interconnect Performance Leadership with New 3.0 Specification

Wait cycles increased because the CPUs and/or memory were functioning constantly beyond an 80% utilization threshold.

Server virtualization

The speed at which a computer runs graphic-intensive applications also depends on its local bus speed--the rate that the CPU communicates with the hard drive.

Buyers beware: what to look for when purchasing a new PC

ARC's patented configurable CPU technology assists customers in the development of next generation digital media, consumer and communications devices, resulting in lower cost, higher performance SoC products.

SMSC Licenses the ARC(TM) 600 Family of Configurable Processors from ARC International

While it's true that CPUs have always been faster than disks, this performance gap has dramatically widened in the past couple of years.

Solid-state disks: moving from luxury to necessity

Over the course of the last decade I watched with great interest as the CPU core based technology has grown in prominence," said Tony Massimini, Chief of Technology at Semico Research Corp.

ARC International Introduces ConfigCon 2006: The First-Ever Series of Developers Conferences for Configurable SoC Design; Hsinchu, Shanghai and Silicon Valley are Initial Venues

The speed of the Peripheral Component Interconnect (PCI) bus, the 'gateway' between external communications (the Internet) and the CPU, has not increased in tandem with CPU speed and Internet traffic, creating a bottleneck.

InfiniBand and the revolution of the DataCenter

ELSTREE, England -- ARC International (LSE:ARK), the world leader in configurable CPU/DSP processor cores and application subsystems, today announced that Siport has taken a license for multiple ARC(TM) 32-bit configurable CPU and DSP cores.

Siport Adopts ARC's Patented Configurable CPU and DSP Technologies for Next-Generation Multimedia Applications

And third, they offer a promising design for low-power, small-foot print devices which today cannot support the overhead associated with Intel CPUs.