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Imagine your laptop running twice as fast without any hardware upgrades; only the application of smarter software algorithms. That's the promise of new research that could change how today's devices function.
The team behind the research, from the University of California, Riverside (UCR), says that the work has huge potential, not just for boosting hardware performance but also increasing efficiency and significantly reducing energy use.
Referred to as simultaneous and heterogeneous multithreading (SHMT), the innovative process takes advantage of the fact modern phones, computers, and other gadgets usually rely on more than one processor to do their thinking.
"You don't have to add new processors because you already have them," says computer engineer Hung-Wei Tseng, from UCR.
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The team behind the research, from the University of California, Riverside (UCR), says that the work has huge potential, not just for boosting hardware performance but also increasing efficiency and significantly reducing energy use.
Referred to as simultaneous and heterogeneous multithreading (SHMT), the innovative process takes advantage of the fact modern phones, computers, and other gadgets usually rely on more than one processor to do their thinking.
"You don't have to add new processors because you already have them," says computer engineer Hung-Wei Tseng, from UCR.
Radical New Discovery Could Double The Speed of Existing Computers
Imagine your laptop running twice as fast without any hardware upgrades; only the application of smarter software algorithms.
www.sciencealert.com
