MIPS Technologies Inc. will wield a new competitive weapon in the embedded-processor wars this week when it introduces hardware multithreading as an optional extension to its 32- and 64-bit ...

But in the system-on-chip (SoC) world, there is another key reason to want hardware multithreading, said Tom Petersen, director of product marketing at MIPS (Mountain View, Calif.). Often, today's ...