Intel has announced major updates for its C++ and Fortran tools, updates that are aimed at making it easier for programmers to exploit thread-level and data-level parallelism in multicore processors.

Intel is looking to make its processor designs more modular. This will prevent them from drawing too much power when running on batteries, without resorting to brute-force power-saving methods such as ...

SAN JOSE, Calif. — With instruction-level parallelism out of fashion and thread-level parallelism the buzzword du jour, Intel Corp. is proposing “pseudo-parallelism” as the next step in microprocessor ...