A new technical paper titled “CVA6 RISC-V Virtualization: Architecture, Microarchitecture, and Design Space Exploration” was published (preprint) by researchers at Universidade do Minho, University of ...

Extra processing power also lets users multitask more effectively. For example, one core could be used for surfing the Web, while the second core is handling an anti-virus scan. (Processor affinity ...

Computer system virtualization was first introduced in mainframes during the 1960s and 1970s. Although virtualization remained a largely untapped facility during the 1980s and 1990s, computer ...

Virtualization companies, unwilling to see core products become a mere operating system feature, are signing deals to build them into hardware. Stephen Shankland worked at CNET from 1998 to 2024 and ...

Specifying and validating embedded systems and chips becomes increasingly challenging as feature sets and non-functional constraints grow. It's especially difficult when the system involves a ...

Intel and AMD dominate x86 enterprise servers because of their hardware-assisted virtual machine (HVM) support. VIA Technologies included HVM in its VIA Nano and its latest dual-core VIA Nano X2 (Fig ...

Virtualization, as the name suggests, involves the creation of a make-believe version of a computer or its constituent resource, like a storage device, server, etc., within a physical computer. The ...

Open source developers on Sunday released the latest stable version of the Linux kernel, version 2.6.26, adding improvements for wireless, virtualization, multimedia and other features. New kernel ...

As the automotive industry grapples with complexity due to electrification and increasing autonomy of vehicles, consolidation of ECUs within vehicles, more stringent safety and security requirements, ...