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ARM offers low-power mobile chips
News At the same event, the Embedded Processor Forum in San Jose, competitor MIPS Technologies announced a multiprocessing core aimed at networking applications. UK chip designer ARM on Tuesday introduced a new processor core for high-end embedded...
[May 1, 2002, 15:55]
Linux heads for TVs and videos
News TimeSys, a seller of Linux designed to be embedded into various computing devices, has joined the Consumer Electronics Linux Forum, and its competitor, MontaVista Software, plans to announce a similar move next week.
[August 11, 2003, 9:15]
General purpose processors flash their assets
News Standard" processors and system-on-a-chip designs that combine the function of several chips in one piece of silicon dominate the new offerings on display at the Embedded Processor Forum, which began on Tuesday in San Jose, California.
[June 13, 2001, 9:26]
MIPS speeds broadband set-top boxes
News MIPS Technologies has given high-tech set-top boxes a boost with a new 64bit microprocessor design called MIPS64 5Kf, announced at the Embedded Processor Forum in San Jose, California this week. A 64bit processor is a necessity when it comes to...
[June 13, 2001, 14:02]
AMD pushes for 64-bit mobile computing
News The chip company announced at the Embedded Processor Forum on Monday that it will license the 64-bit MIPS64 instruction set architecture, which is particularly suited to high-performance applications such as multimedia and encryption.
[April 30, 2002, 12:24]
Intel v AMD: let the battle begin - Part2
News A number of vendors will also discuss embedded processors. Intel, not to be outdone, will disclose new details on its the Merced processor at the Microprocessor Forum. Merced, otherwise known as IA-64, will be the first 64-bit processor from Intel.
[October 4, 1999, 15:54]
IBM plots next PowerPC chips, Part II
News IBM is expected to present papers at June's Embedded Microprocessor Forum in San Jose, California. New IBM PowerPC chips are also wending their way to embedded applications, sources said. Also playing an important role in the new embedded chips...
[May 25, 2000, 14:26]
Cirrus puts Bluetooth in audio devices
News Cirrus Logic, which has as large share of the market for digital audio players and other portable consumer electronics, says it will begin building Bluetooth into its popular Maverick embedded processor.
[May 31, 2001, 8:38]
Transmeta explores embedded market
News Transmeta has begun marketing its Crusoe processor to manufacturers of networking equipment, printers and other "embedded" devices in an effort to achieve critical mass. The push into the embedded processor market comes as a way for Transmeta to...
[October 4, 2001, 9:39]
Intel touts month-long battery life for mobiles
News Intel on Thursday gave some of the details of a new manufacturing technology that could greatly speed up the chips embedded in mobile handsets and other wireless devices, while extending battery life to as long as a month.
[May 18, 2001, 8:42]
Interactive DVD format gets broad support
News LSI is working with two browser manufacturers, the UK's ANT and Embedded Internet Systems. LSI Logic said it would integrate Enhanced DVD into its ZiVA-5 DVD system processor, a single-chip DVD processor.
[September 26, 2002, 16:19]
Transmeta teams with Windows CE .Net
News Chipmaker Transmeta said on Wednesday it has received a key certification from Microsoft, an important step in the company's strategy to enter the embedded processor market. Certification is a crucial stage in Transmeta's plans to tackle the...
[August 22, 2002, 8:20]
ARM pushes 3D for mobile phones
News This core was recently licensed by chip giant Intel, which separately licenses ARM's products for its XScale embedded processor architecture. ARM worked with Imagination to retool PowerVR for the embedded market, a broad term for non-PC computing...
[August 7, 2002, 15:48]
Dual-core chips will not share cache
News Speaking of the Microprocessor Forum, Krewell said the sponsoring organisation will not be handing out its trademark portfolio that contains chips highlighted at the conference embedded in the portfolio cover.
[August 26, 2004, 8:20]
Axe falls on AMD low-end processors
News AMD is to stop producing its K6-2 processors next summer, in a move that some are calling a "major blow" to the embedded market. The company also plans to stop production of its 486 and 586 processors which, like the bulk of the K6-2s now produced...
[August 14, 2001, 17:20]
AMD, Intel, IBM stake out new territory at chip forum
News The new chip integrates more features than Transmeta's current TM5800 chip, for use in more power-sensitive applications, including embedded devices. And Intel will preview its new mobile processor, code-named Banias, discus its approach to...
[October 16, 2001, 8:56]
AMD seeks Wi-Fi Alchemy with new chips
News AMD has been expanding its push into embedded processors and chipsets as a way of bolstering its flash memory unit, which along with its PC processor business dominates the company. AMD bought Alchemy in February and then in April licensed a 64-bit...
[November 4, 2002, 15:34]
Via chipset gives notebooks a shot in the DDR
News Via on Tuesday launched an embedded platform called Eden, which uses the Via Apollos PLE133 processor, ProSavage PN133T north bridge and VT8231 south bridge to offer a low-power option for many embedded systems.
[December 12, 2001, 14:06]
ARM design to take mobile chips over 1GHz
News The architecture, details of which were revealed on Monday to coincide with the Embedded Processor Forum in California, is also the first to implement ARM's v6 instruction set, which includes multimedia performance enhancement features.
[April 29, 2002, 13:55]
Thumb upgrade to turbo charge mobile phones
News Thumb 2, which was announced at the Embedded Processor Forum taking place in San Jose, California, this week, updates the original Thumb instructions, which the company came out with in 1995. Software code written to take advantage of the Thumb 2...
[June 17, 2003, 11:13]
