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Embedded chips chase gadget market
News Embedded" refers to chips found in anything but a PC. Most embedded chips are created to perform specific tasks while offering low-power consumption and a low price. As is the nature of the embedded market, the chips may make a difference to...
[April 11, 2001, 10:44]
ARM chips to run embedded Linux
News ARM, the UK embedded-chip designer, on Tuesday formalised a partnership to bring embedded Linux to its platform. The company licenses low-power chip designs for portable devices including handheld computers and mobile phones, and has become the...
[April 10, 2001, 13:07]
Transmeta climbs into embedded market
News Transmeta on Monday will release its first line of chips for cash registers, industrial equipment and other embedded applications in an attempt to diversify its business. Embedded chips typically perform a limited number of functions and run only a...
[January 6, 2003, 7:50]
AMD pushes for 64-bit mobile computing
News AMD has licensed an advanced architecture from MIPS Technologies in a move to boost its new embedded chips division, which makes processors for "embedded" devices such as handheld computers and information appliances.
[April 30, 2002, 12:24]
ARM ups speed, drops power with new chip
News ARM has launched its Cortex-A5 MPCore processor, the latest in its series of embedded chips aimed at internet-connected devices such as handsets, set-top boxes, industrial and consumer electronics equipment.
[October 21, 2009, 17:09]
Transmeta teams with Windows CE .Net
News Most chips sold in the embedded market, though, are already energy-efficient and are based around designs from ARM Holdings or MIPS Technologies. Chipmaker Transmeta said on Wednesday it has received a key certification from Microsoft, an important...
[August 22, 2002, 8:20]
Transmeta explores embedded market
News By this time next year, it could equal the notebook market," Mark Allen, Transmeta's chief executive, said of the company's prospects in the market for embedded chips. Embedded chips can also be quite cheap, although the volumes can be substantial.
[October 4, 2001, 9:39]
IBM plots next PowerPC chips, Part II
News New IBM PowerPC chips are also wending their way to embedded applications, sources said. Also playing an important role in the new embedded chips will be IBM's CoreConnect bus. Another embedded PowerPC chip, due later in the year, will be called...
[May 25, 2000, 14:26]
ARM sees opportunity in adversity
News ARM sells designs for embedded chips, a huge market including everything from dishwashers to mobile phones, for which low power consumption is more important than the clock speeds touted by PC chip makers like Intel and AMD.
[April 11, 2001, 11:24]
Smart chips get under our skin
News Less talked about is the reverse idea of humans adopting some of the qualities of machines via embedded or implanted chips. We are not pursuing any applications for embedded chips and we have moved away from that for a couple of reasons," says a...
[January 23, 2001, 14:08]
IBM set to boost chip memory
News Starting with its 45nm (nanometre) processors next year, IBM will use embedded DRAM (dynamic RAM) instead of SRAM (static RAM) on its processors, effectively tripling the amount of memory it can put on those chips.
[February 14, 2007, 8:06]
VoiceButler adds new chord to Transmeta
News Transmeta, which specialises in chips that don't use much power, has previously focused on ultra-light laptops with long battery life, but is attempting to expand into the huge market for embedded, or non-PC, devices.
[April 3, 2003, 13:44]
Axe falls on AMD low-end processors
News However, some of the chips to be discontinued that were designed for the embedded market, such as the K6-2E+, were launched as recently as October 2000. AMD is to stop producing its K6-2 processors next summer, in a move that some are calling a...
[August 14, 2001, 17:20]
Rupert Goodwins' Diary
Blog This respect and enlightened self-interest appears to be blossoming into something stronger, now that they've announced that they'll be working very closely together in the world of embedded mobile processors -- the chips in your phone, in other...
[June 29, 2001, 18:19]
Analyst: Transmeta should drop out of PCs
News They might want to look at other areas, like embedded chips, where low power is a key play. Brown said areas that may still be open to a big Transmeta presence might be embedded chips for products such as routers or "blade" servers, although...
[March 7, 2002, 14:20]
Transmeta investigating Taiwan foundries
News Unlike chip behemoths like Intel or Advanced Micro Devices (AMD), they are extremely flexible, able to manufacture everything from embedded chips to chipsets to full-on processors. Some of the most successful intellectual property-based chip...
[August 8, 2000, 10:00]
China advances home-grown chips
News The country is also working on embedded chips. The "China chip" programme, as the government calls it, made its first significant breakthrough last September with the announcement of the so-called Dragon Chip: the 32-bit Godson-1A, a MIPS...
[March 6, 2003, 13:52]
Intel readies massive multicore processors
News Intel is also tinkering with ways to let multicore chips share caches, pools of memory embedded in processors for rapid data access. A 64-core chip, for instance, might contain 42 x86 cores, 18 accelerators and four embedded graphics cores.
[June 14, 2007, 13:32]
ZigBee gets middleware boost
News It runs an embedded version of Linux, as well as an embedded version of Java. A partnership formed last week between Ember, a maker of ZigBee chips, and US technology firm Arcom could help companies to manage data from a ZigBee wireless network.
[October 19, 2004, 11:15]
Intel uses Imagination on embedded 3D graphics
News The deal is also a boost for Imagination, which lost the gaming console market when Sega discontinued Dreamcast, but has recently signed on such embedded giants as Hitachi and ARM Holdings. The PowerVR architecture is designed to be highly scalable...
[July 25, 2002, 15:36]
