A new generation of programmable network processors coming out this year may have a better shot than previous chips at getting into switches and routers, allowing vendors — as well as service ...

The Network Processing Forum this week released benchmark specifications for measuring the performance of network processors. The industry consortium started laying out its benchmarks in October; this ...

A wave of project cancellations has swept over network processor design companies in recent months, redefining the already troubled market and causing analysts to dramatically lower their revenue ...

IBM says tomorrow's smart computer networks begin with today's chips. The network processor, an increasingly popular class of chips, is charged with helping to identify and route data over a network.

Network processors are designed for speed, but programming them is often a challenge. Here, you'll find the information you need to write software that makes the most of them. Network processors are ...

Intel announces three new network processors this week for a market that may finally begin to take off. The three new chips--the IXP 420, 421 and 422--are essentially the same Xscale-based chip ...

Advancements in LAN silicon continue, as Xelerated has started to ship a network processor capable of running 10 Gigabit Ethernet links. The fabless semiconductor company showed the X10q-e processor ...

SANTA CLARA, Calif.--(BUSINESS WIRE)--VeriSilicon Holdings Co., Ltd. (VeriSilicon), a Silicon Platform as a Service (SiPaaS®) company, today announces VIP8000, a highly scalable and programmable ...

SHANGHAI--(BUSINESS WIRE)--VeriSilicon (688521.SH), a leading Silicon Platform as a Service (SiPaaS ®) company, today announced its neural network processor (the Vivante 1 NPU) IP designed for ...

Michael Kanellos is editor at large at CNET News.com, where he covers hardware, research and development, start-ups and the tech industry overseas. Intel plans to announce a new network processor on ...

It's become increasingly clear that quantum computers won't have a single moment when they become clearly superior to classical hardware. Instead, we're likely to see them becoming useful for a narrow ...