Chopping up work between many cores doing work in parallel will conserve power on battery-constrained devices, Huang argues.

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The researchers say that, because the hippocampus can be seen as a series of similar circuits that work in parallel, it should be possible to bypass the damaged area.

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Rather than speed up the clock to goose performance, Intel (and all its rivals, including AMD and ARM) has turned to multiple cores to get work done in parallel and therefore faster.

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