Chip multiprocessing is a soon-to-be commercialized technique in CPU design that combines two or more processor cores on a single piece of silicon (called a die) to enhance computing performance ...

So, is multiprocessing new? No, – multiple processors have been used to share the workload in embedded devices for many years. So is multicore processing new? Also no – enterprise and servers have ...

Busy lives have many of us juggling multiple tasks at once, but is that really multitasking? Here's what expert Linda Stone has learned about the myth of multitasking.

Multiprocessing system design is all around us. Tablet and desktop computers, for instance, use processors with multiple, identical cores – homogeneous multiprocessing – to achieve higher performance ...

Python's "multiprocessing" module feels like threads, but actually launches processes. Many people, when they start to work with Python, are excited to hear that the language supports threading. And, ...