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ARM chips to run embedded Linux
News The two companies said they will collaborate at an engineering level to bring Lineo's embedded Linux to microprocessors based on ARM cores. Customers are demanding solutions for the ARM family of microprocessors and we're providing them with those...
[April 10, 2001, 13:07]
ARM backs Linux for consumer devices
News ARM said it has already undertaken work to develop and use embedded Linux on microprocessors based on its cores, but said the software needs more work to fully make the transition from servers and desktops to embedded devices.
[October 27, 2003, 16:30]
Embedded computing to boom in Europe
News Industry group Artemis, whose members include Airbus, Ericsson, Nokia and Siemens, predicts that embedded computing — the technology that sees microprocessors arriving in everything from phones to cars to shop tills — will grow by around 10 per...
[July 5, 2005, 9:05]
The Design and Performance of Real-Time Java Middleware
White Papers Over 90 percent of all microprocessors are now used for real-time and embedded applications. This paper provides two contributions to the study of languages and middleware for real-time and embedded applications.
[January 3, 2009, 0:00]
Teaching Software Engineering for Embedded Systems: An Experience Report From the Manaus Research and Development Pole
White Papers The number of microprocessors and microcontrollers being applied to modern computational systems is growing exponentially. This paper describes an inter-universities training program specially created for embedded systems organized by CEFET-AM, a...
[November 29, 2008, 23:00]
Motorola and MIT to create thinking chips
News The donation will fund a new lab, dubbed the Motorola Digital DNA Lab, and research into how embedded microprocessors can make life easier for consumers. Motorola estimates that several billion of its processors are embedded in devices throughout...
[March 16, 1999, 13:12]
US Report: AMD and Motorola team up
News Copper is a more efficient conductor of electricity than aluminium, which is used in current microprocessors. The two will announce a patent cross-licensing deal on Monday that, among other things, gives AMD access to Motorola's copper...
[July 20, 1998, 12:04]
Too many flavours of Java, say those caught in the middle
News Hewlett-Packard estimates the embedded Java market is vastly more lucrative than the enterprise market, since 87 per cent of all microprocessors are in embedded devices, as opposed to computers. Hewlett-Packard was so dissatisfied with Sun's...
[November 9, 1998, 9:11]
A Year Ago: AMD and Motorola team up
News Copper is a more efficient conductor of electricity than aluminium, which is used in current microprocessors. The two will announce a patent cross-licensing deal on Monday that, among other things, gives AMD access to Motorola's copper...
[July 20, 1999, 6:09]
ZigBee gets middleware boost
News Because ZigBee chips should be very cheap and consume extremely little power, the technology's proponents claim it will allow many of the estimated 10 billion microprocessors shipped each year to be linked to a network.
[October 19, 2004, 11:15]
China advances home-grown chips
News Last November, Shanghai Fudan Microelectronics announced a 32-bit embedded processor called Shenwei I, which is compatible with code written for the x86 instruction set common in desktop microprocessors.
[March 6, 2003, 13:52]
Linux everywhere: The Penguin goes mobile
News We're seeing a ton of development on Linux," said Lynn Comp, product marketing engineer at Intel's handheld computing division, which markets the company's Strong ARM microprocessors. Nevertheless, Microsoft is already losing mind share to Linux...
[June 29, 2000, 14:07]
US Report: Sun carries out sweeping changes
News Mel Friedman will lead the microelectronics division, which includes the SPARC microprocessor, board products and Java microprocessors. Mark Tolliver has been named president of the new consumer/embedded markets division, which will focus on Java...
[April 24, 1998, 7:56]
Tiny firm takes on Intel
News After reviewing the suits against our customers, it became clear to us that Patriot was really claiming our microprocessors infringed," said Chuck Mulloy, an Intel spokesman. In microprocessors, time is kept by a vibrating crystal.
[February 11, 2004, 10:35]
US judge views Apple and IBM as chip rivals
News IBM designs and manufactures microprocessors suitable for each of those applications. An IBM representative was unable to provide the names of IBM-designed microprocessors or SoCs for smartphones or handheld computers.
[November 26, 2008, 11:34]
Look Out Transmeta!
News With either processor, Embedix needs a modest PowerPC or x86 microprocessors, 8MBs of RAM and 3MB ROM or Flash memory. Lineo, a subsidiary of Caldera, began shipping its embedded Linux operating system Embedix Linux 1.0, yesterday.
[February 1, 2000, 9:12]
General purpose processors flash their assets
News Chip manufacturers and designers at the forum are expected to announce about 30 new microprocessors, digital signal processors and other chips meant to power devices such as video game consoles, handheld computers, set-top boxes and networking...
[June 13, 2001, 9:26]
Microsoft co-founder hits investment slump
News Microprocessors embedded in objects and connected to networks open up a world of new opportunities -- a world where information is easily customised for each user's needs. As part of that goal, he has dabbled since Vulcan's founding in 1986 in...
[May 13, 2002, 15:48]
Wind River gives Intel a shot in the software arm
News Intel's primary business is developing, manufacturing and selling microprocessors, but software has steadily risen in prominence. Wind River's brand will live on at Intel, but the acquisition will mark the end of the independent history of an...
[June 5, 2009, 13:50]
US Report: SGI deals with Intel; outlines strategy
News MIPS designs and licenses microprocessors for the consumer and embedded markets, including game machines, set-top boxes and handheld devices At a press conference in New York, Silicon Graphics' CEO, Rick Belluzzo, outlined the company's "strategic...
[April 15, 1998, 7:00]
