Operating systems for multicore chips will need more information about their own performance—and more resources for addressing whatever problems arise.MIT News Office From ACM News | March 1, 2011
A computer chip that performs imprecise calculations could process some types of data thousands of times more efficiently than existing chips.MIT News Office From ACM News | January 4, 2011
Research suggests that the free operating system Linux will keep up with the addition of more "cores," or processing units, to computer chips.MIT News Office From ACM News | September 30, 2010
In 1995, a good computer chip had a clock speed of about 100 megahertz. Seven years later, in 2002, a good computer chip had a clock speed of about three gigahertz...MIT News Office From ACM News | October 23, 2009