| ARM unveils AMBA 4 spec for multi-core processors
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2011-06-09 |
| ARM has released the AMBA 4, which optimises coherency for heterogeneous multi-core SoCs. It also maximises performance and power efficiency for next generation applications |
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| RIM unit licenses Cortus security core
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2011-06-08 |
| Certicom has licensed Cortus' APS3 32bit RISC, a compact 32bit processor designed for low transistor count and offering 32bit performance on a silicon footprint that is the same as an 8bit 8051. |
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| Renesas Mobile CEO eyes LTE market
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2011-05-31 |
| Renesas Mobile's CEO shares his ambition to turn the company into a credible competitor against Qualcomm armed with a proven and trusted LTE protocol stack gained from Nokia. |
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| Mistral joins TI's Elite Design House network
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2011-05-09 |
| Mistral Solutions Pvt. Ltd joins TI's EDH network that offer system-level design services and products, providing accelerated product innovation and time-to-market to product developers. |
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| Nokia puts off dual-core smartphones
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2011-05-09 |
| Nokia puts off dual-core smartphone release citing lack of support from its new operating system partner, Microsoft. |
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| Multicore programming challenges
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2011-05-06 |
| Multicore programming discussion panel had experts calling for new tools and methods to maximise the benefits of future increasingly parallel chips. |
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| AMD on the path to getting ARM-ed
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2011-05-02 |
| AMD as an independent fabless chip company working on multi-core ICs made using the ARM architecture seems the most cost-effective and likely choice to compete against Intel |
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| AMD Embedded G-Series gains ThreadX RTOS support
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2011-04-27 |
| AMD adds Express Logic's ThreadX real-time operating system (RTOS) support to its Embedded G-Series platform. |
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| Mobile DRAM technology races on
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2011-04-21 |
| Mobile market bandwidth requirements are lapping the capabilities of current-generation mobile DRAM technology, forcing a lane change to next-gen standards such as I/O DRAM. |
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| Multicore architectures explore parallelism
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2011-03-29 |
| Industry experts call for moving away from sequential computing to new parallel programming environments that can bring in new applications for low power multi-core architectures |
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| Multicore Association releases comms API spec 2.0
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2011-03-17 |
| The Multicore Association releases version 2.0 of its multi-core communications API specs defining new features, such as domains for routing purposes |
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| Arteris, CEVA team on multi-core interconnect tech
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2011-03-07 |
| CEVA licenses Arteris' FlexNoC interconnect IP while Arteris joins the CEVAnet partner programme. |
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| Plug-n-play MCVR delivers 'smart' energy savings
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2011-03-02 |
| Harvard student Wonyoung Kim demonstrates an on-chip multi-core voltage regulator (MCVR) that could allow the creation of "smarter" smartphones, slimmer laptops, and more energy-friendly data centres |
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| Parallel algorithm boosts cell phone video quality
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2011-02-28 |
| A parallel algorithm to be incorporated into the High Efficiency Video Coding (HEVC) standard promises much improved video quality and power consumption on devices ranging from 3D TV to cell phones. |
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| Cavium, Picochip display end-to-end LTE femtocell
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2011-02-16 |
| Cavium and Picochip have teamed up on an end-to-end LTE demo at the Mobile World Congress 2011. |
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| Mindspeed presents small-cell base station products
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2011-02-11 |
| Mindspeed Technologies' Transcede processor family has been integrated into picocells and microcells to be shown at the 2011 Mobile World Congress trade show in Barcelona, Spain. |
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| Synopsys launches verification migration programme
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2011-02-08 |
| Synopsys Inc. has introduced the verification FastForward migration programme and invited Cadence Incisive and Mentor Questa users to join it. |
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| Crossover SoCs enable new business models
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2011-02-07 |
| Xilinx CTO feels that heterogeneous multi-core SoCs with FPGA fabric are set to change the IC landscape. The only thing missing are the standards to enable it |
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| Microsoft calls for multi-core datacenter server SoCs
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2011-02-01 |
| Speaking at the Linley Tech Data Centre Conf., Microsoft's datacenter group engineer said that a new class of multi-core SoCs were required to drive lower-power servers in datacenters |
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| NetLogic tapes-out 28nm, targets network apps
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2011-01-24 |
| NetLogic Microsystems Inc. tapes-out advanced 28nm silicon targeting next-generation network infrastructure applications, at Taiwan Semiconductor Manufacturing Co. |
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| Smartphone paradigm shift necessitates newer SoCs
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2011-01-21 |
| The smartphone paradigm shift has elevated the importance of high-performance analogue and mixed-signal ICs while creating opportunities for suppliers of mixed-signal application solutions. |
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| Analyst: Intel ahead of ARM
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2011-01-13 |
| With ARM Holdings plc and Intel Corp. each trying to grab a share of the other's market segments, analysts feel that Intel has a good head start. |
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| Design for tomorrow's smart connected devices
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2011-01-07 |
| As devices get internet-connected and interconnected with other smart devices, they are demanding high-performance, low-power CPUs and open source software platforms, says MIPS President Art Swift. |
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| Mobile processor market heats up
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2011-01-06 |
| By 2014, mobile processor market will hit 400 crore units as competition in the mobile processor market heats up, particularly between ARM and x86, says In-Stat. |
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| GSA award granted to NetLogic
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2010-12-15 |
| NetLogic Microsystems Inc. won the 2010 Most Respected Emerging Public Semiconductor Company Award in the $500 million category, from the GSA for the second consecutive year. |
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| Freescale, CriticalBlue team on multi-core s/w dev't
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2010-12-06 |
| Freescale has partnered with CriticalBlue to provide the latter's Prism solution support for a range of current and future Freescale multi-core platforms |
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| Are chip makers listening?
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2010-11-29 |
| Chip makers should take up the next challenge—to include the long-ignored dimension of efficiency, if the Moore's Law has to remain intact. |
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| MCA invites non-member multi-core expertise
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2010-11-29 |
| The Multicore Association (MCA) extends its guest membership programme to attract non-member expertise for speedy time-to-market on multi-core implementations |
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| ARM shoots for 64bit processors
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2010-11-23 |
| An IDG news report indicates that processor intellectual property licensor ARM is getting ready to unveil its next processor core with 64bit support within the next few weeks. |
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| Exascale: Future of computing systems by 2018
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2010-11-22 |
| Computer engineers are investigating radical shifts in computing to achieve exascale-class systems by 2018 and their efforts recognise that today's best designs are too complex and power hungry to execute a quintillion instructions per second. |
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