Intel is focusing its efforts on homogeneous cores. It’s likely that the two worlds will merge with a mix of homogeneous and heterogeneous cores, but it raises some programming issues that are not yet ...

According to Intel, the products feature new automatic support for accelerating program performance on the company's multicore processors. Applications containing 3-D graphics or video are ...

Intel started the pilot program for multicore programming at five of China's top universities, including Tsinghua University, Zhejiang University and Fudan University. As part of the expansion, Intel ...

Adding more cores is desirable to meet growing computing demands, but it could create more challenges for programmers writing code that enables applications to work effectively with multicore chips.

As technology develops at a fast rate, a challenge for developers is to adapt to programming for multicore systems, said Doug Davis, vice president of the digital enterprise group at Intel, during ...

Intel readies massive multicore processors Researchers work to mask intricate functionality of up-to-80-core chips, so hardware and software makers can more easily adapt to them.

Intel hopes to lend a hand through a new programming language — called Ct — the chipmaker has developed specifically for multi-core computing. Ct was among the dozens of projects Intel had on display ...

The lack of multicore programming tools for mainstream developers is perhaps the biggest challenge the industry faces today, Gwennap said.

Intel open sources multicore programming tool Intel launches their largest open-source effort ever: Thread Building Blocks 2 … ...

Intel also has created its own multicore programming language, called Ct, which is still in the experimental phase, and IBM has been working on its own multicore processing technology.

Microsoft (MSFT) and Intel (INTC) this summer both snapped up companies with technology that helps software developers build programs that take advantage of multicore chips. Last July I pulled ...

Intel announces Intel Parallel Studio 2011, a new version of its tool set for building applications for parallel systems.