When there is talked about modern CPUs and GPUs the terms SIMD processor, Stream processor and Vector processor often pops up. I have been trying to figure out how these terms relate but its unclear ...

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SAN MATEO, Calif.--(BUSINESS WIRE)--SiFive, Inc., the industry leader in RISC-V processors and silicon solutions, today launched the new SiFive Performance family of processors. The SiFive Performance ...

For compute-intensive applications like 5G cellular and machine learning DNN/CNN, Xilinx’s new vector processor AI Engines are an array of VLIW SIMD high-performance processors that deliver up to 8X ...

The Cell processor consists of a general-purpose POWERPC processor core connected to eight special-purpose DSP cores. These DSP cores, which IBM calls "synergistic processing elements" (SPE), but I'm ...

As mentioned, SIMD processors have limited efficiency for the final image-processing steps that are either mainly serialized or require floating-point arithmetic. Additionally, when compared with ...

Is low-level programming a sin or a virtue? It depends. When programming for using vector processing on a modern processor, ideally I’d write some code in my favorite language and it would run as fast ...

The maturity level of RISC-V and the availability of domain-specific instruction set extensions, like vector processing, make RISC-V a good candidate for supporting the integration of specialized ...