Two conflicting requirements are associated with the continuing growth of the Internet: higher performance and better security. With users demanding less delays in their access to information and ...

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 ...

Next-generation network processors (NPUs) will be called on to perform gargantuan tasks. They will be asked to process network traffic at speeds an order of magnitude higher than current rates, to ...

Continuous change in network speeds and services has forced network equipment designers and network-processor (NP) vendors to re-evaluate their designs. The quest is on for new and better ways to ...

When shopping around to upgrade your fleet of business computers, the metric that stands out on labels and in ads is processor -- or CPU -- performance or speed. You should not, however, try to ...

In the context of today’s smartphones, it’s hard to imagine a 64-bit processor-powered mobile device when 32-bit processors will do the job for most mobile users. The 32-bit processor in most ...