The rise of personal computing in the 1980s — along with graphical user interfaces (GUIs) and applications ranging from office apps to databases — drove the demand for faster chips capable of removing ...

This sponsored post from Intel explores ways to find and eliminate memory bottlenecks that could be limiting your applications’ performance. Often, it’s not enough to parallelize and vectorize an ...

Finding performance bottlenecks can be a difficult task and it can get even more difficult as our applications grow in size. The Box is a methodology tool that focuses us efforts to improve ...

The semiconductor industry has spent years and untold dollars searching for a "universal memory" that could combine the performance of DRAM with the capacity and cost of flash. The recently-announced ...

A surge in the amount of data that SoCs need to process is bogging down performance, and while the processors themselves can handle that influx, memory and communication bandwidth are straining. The ...

Your computer is running slowly. Guess you have to buy a faster processor, right? Not necessarily. You want strong encryption. Guess you have to increase the encryption keylength, right? Not ...

Suffering slowdowns? Our experts have the experience to help you find the problem -- and offer a little advice on how to fix it, too “Bottleneck” is a wonderfully descriptive term. It describes an ...

Local and wide area networks provide for workplace communication highways. Both network types allow coworkers to exchange information. Like a city highway during rush hour, a network can suffer from ...